Leaving renewables for the time being.

[solarsavings]

Moggy, You can't have meant your post to read as it does surely:crazy:

 

[moggy1968]

which bit did you mean?

 

[solarsavings]

I think this business is unsurvivable for all except the cowboys now

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[will keep the PV company running so we can just slip in and out of the market as we need to.

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I'm sure you're not a cowboy;-)

 

[moggy1968]

no, I think the meaning is clear. It's not survivable for us in it's current form. My other businesses mean we can stay in the background should it change in the future and to pick up any work thats there but as a full time business, main business, or even decent part time business PV is now non viable for us.

 

[jason121]

This is from the segen web site
SEGEN IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A HIGHER THAN USUAL VOLUME OF ORDERS. TO ENSURE YOUR ORDER IS DISPATCHED WHEN YOU WANT IT, PLEASE PLACE ORDERS AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE AND ARRANGE PROMPT PAYMENT.
some installers are still busy

 

[Gavin A]

This is from the segen web site
SEGEN IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A HIGHER THAN USUAL VOLUME OF ORDERS. TO ENSURE YOUR ORDER IS DISPATCHED WHEN YOU WANT IT, PLEASE PLACE ORDERS AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE AND ARRANGE PROMPT PAYMENT.
some installers are still busy

preemptive warning IMO in anticipation of a last minute rush - they didn't seem particularly busy when processing our orders last week.

 

[sedgy34]

That could be a carrot

 

[balbecdaze]

or possibly a customer response to supply price increases? (i'm sure I read a comment on a thread recently here to back this up but I can only find a reference to footfall in a woodburnng stove shop with a quick search)

 

[Noshocks]

Wholesaler is telling me they are very quiet, this is with a tarriff reduction in a short while. December and January have always been quiet, so its looking more than a little bleak at present. Next year it may pick upin second quarter, if you can hang on that long, and arent dependent on PV or renewables alone.

Just glad I dident throw money at technologies relying on the RHI or green deal, need as much reserves as possible at the moment, poor government policy and a reccesion equals perfect storm.

 

[SolarRoofSols]

This is from the segen web site
SEGEN IS CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING A HIGHER THAN USUAL VOLUME OF ORDERS. TO ENSURE YOUR ORDER IS DISPATCHED WHEN YOU WANT IT, PLEASE PLACE ORDERS AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE AND ARRANGE PROMPT PAYMENT.
some installers are still busy

That why the price of yingli 250w panes has come down by £5 over the weekend then lol.

Hopefully I hope that some installers are busy - we aren't and have been advertising!

 

[Noshocks]

I dont see any point in advertising at the moment to be honest, there are only a few hundred installs being done each week, that is a small pie, to get a slice you would never compete with the advertisiing budget of the big boys.

Its word of mouth and other income streams, ie house bashing for me. Give Joe public a chance to digest electricity prices, the market will return eventually, solar makes more financial sense day by day.

 

[sedgy34]

need to perceviere still do flyers as we are cant just sit and wait for the phone to ring

 

[sedgy34]

whilst its been slow we are now registered with chas and constructionline hope that helps our cause

 

[Noshocks]

Absolutely Sedgy you hav to do what you can to survive, I just dont think its wise throwing resources at solar when there is such low demand at the moment, just my opinion.

 

[moggy1968]

also, with the margins being so tight unless you can stack em high sell em cheap in sizeable volumes then the budget just isn't there.

If your going to spend money on marketing there's got to be margin there to pay for it