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Had a customer comment that he is thinking of upgrading to a MW (out of my league) and he has a national involved.

Now he is being told that it is better to have a 200KW and a seperate 800KW.

The 200KW gets added to the 50KW system he already had installed during the pre-DEC 2011 rush, and he can claim the FIT rate eligible at that date?

Is that correct?

Only it got me thinking, should i be adding more panels to my system, and contacting people we only put 2kw systems in for instance to get them upto 4kw on the old rates.

I can't see this being right, but you never know and thought i would ask here?

I cannot find reference to it on the MCS sites or FIT sites.
 
Thats the way i see it, but not what he is being told.

Also that said, and as i say its out of my league, and i was more interested in that statement made, thinking to myself "that can't be right"
 
If he has an addition to the existing pv installed system (within the same circuit(s)) then the entire installation will NOT be eligible for the old FIT. This would make the entire installation classed as a new installation and eligible for the current FIT (much lower rate).

I would think (off the cuff without looking into it) that leaving the existing installation alone would be the best action to take and to install seperate 50Kw systems with individual generation meters. You may need to research into a bit further about MCS regs on this, I know that you can recieve FITs for upto 25 installations without penalty (that used to be the case I think?) and that there are lower FITs for aggregated projects (if you have more than one being paid to you).


Hope this helps a bit.

DK
 
Your customer is either being given totally the wrong information (DECC changed the rules on this about 18 months ago) or maybe he has misinterpreted what he has been told. All extensions are paid at the current tariffs and would be based on the total TIC.

Perhaps what he has been told is to install the extension in two separate steps, first add 200kW and later add 750kW. This way the 200kW would be paid at the current upto 250kW tariff of 11p and then the 750kW would be paid at the 7.1p tariff. If he installed the extra 950kW in one go then the whole extension would be paid at the 7.1p rate. Doing it in two stages would give him about an extra ÂŁ7k a year in FiT payments.

(I'm assuming he currently has 50kW.)
 
TEDM, I think youve hit the nail on the head there

I suspect my customer is getting the wrong end of the stick.

That would make perfect sense now.
 

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