Parliament TV - FiT Review

[SolarCity]

Thoroughly enjoyed watching that. I thought the lady to Greg's right was going to cry at one point.

 

[Somecamel]

When questioned, not one person could explain why the FIT was 43.3p, instead of 41.3p.
They thought that it included the export at 3p.
I may not have listened as much as I should at school, but 41.3p+3p= 44.3p.
Do you think I should point out to them that it is linked to the RPI?
Earthstore Energy for government!!!
Well I could not do it much worse, and I can add up!

It pays 43.3 for the generation tariff and 3p for the export tariff which is normally set at 50% of generation.

The 41.3p was the tariff for last year- it increased to 43.3p with an inflationary rise in April 2011.

Watching it now- pretty gripping- can't wait to see Greg in action lol

 

[Somecamel]

Really starting to **** me off the way Politicians always blame the last party in power- It's boring- Move on!!

 

[powervan]

as usual the SMALL MAN LEFT OUT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Somecamel]

As much as we all 'dislike' the rent-a-roof brigade- The guy representing him did make some good points

 

[Somecamel]

It's all resorted to graphs made in Microsoft word

 

[SRE]

Interesting that the impact assessment didn't assess the impact of losing so many jobs.

I'm pleased to see that the fact that the deadline was so short was brought up several times but I didn't really get the feeling that they understood why there was so much growth at the minute and no-one seemed to mention that the graph will have an almighty dip in December and January because there wouldn't be anything else to install.

None of the industry guys managed to explain why there was such an increase at the minute and I thought that was a lost opportunity.

Too little discussion for my liking about the EPC, but on the whole watching Greg Barker squirm has made my day

 

[grandfortune]

i liked the bit when he said they (we) cant sell PV or run our business after the 12th until the conssolidation finishes as we will be misselling as we dont know what tarrif to work to, and you cant go to the lower one to be safe, its misselling plain and simple

 

[powervan]

truth is like the rather large scotch chap kept on about!! they think we all been getting rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they realy dont understand whats involved for the smaller company!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! weve not been getting rich!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!weve been training(sort of) and getting mcs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so its the Big boys taken the money plus the training bodies and nic and napit!!!!!!! seems to me the only ones short changed but STILL trying to help clients is the small companies??????????????????? hold on !!!!!!!!!!! just looked in mirror to see if i had SUCKER stamped on my HRAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[moggy1968]

If you want to make money in a gold rush you don't dig for gold, you sell picks and shovels to the ones looking for gold

Just for the record I have made about 15k profit out of solar since starting out. hardly getting rich and certainly not enough to get the mortgage I would like to have but don't 'cos I live in rented.
we didn't all make massive amounts from this. Since the business starting to come in I would say I have made a comfortable living but it took quite while to cover my start up costs.
many of the people on here haven't even managed that.

 

[sambotc]

Surely there would have been a steep rise in install's before april 2012 regardless as most people knew the tarriffs were going to be reduced at this time anyway? I certainly heard it months ago, The same thing will happen when they decide to phase out the 21p tarriffs, and again and again as you will always have chancers leaving it until the last minute, or the thought of losing out being the final push for somebody to decide to have it installed?

Likewise, I think installs would have dropped off after the cuts as people realise they've missed the boat so don't feel the need to hurry into making a decision, after all it's a new technology that hasn't been around long enough for the general public to put any faith (or money) into!

The fact they've slashed them in half has just magnified the problem?

 

[Donavan Bangs]

exactly everyone was aware of the review and drop in april that was expected so planned to install before then September onwards maybe later. Now just a mad rush with installs and they were surprised, they caused the rush.

 

[Somecamel]

exactly everyone was aware of the review and drop in april that was expected so planned to install before then September onwards maybe later. Now just a mad rush with installs and they were surprised, they caused the rush.

Agreed- They created this mess now they're trying to wriggle out of that

 

[powervan]

i be interested when loads of pv systems end up on the floor !! who gets the blame !! not them MPs !!

 

[moggy1968]

I'd like to know how many MPs got PV fitted before the deadline?
I presume this could be requested under the FOA?