Race to the bottom

[MBE Contracting]

Seems like it's going to be a classic race to the bottom with regards quality of equipment. There's no way you could make it pay using best quality kit.

And check out the warranties on some of those cheap chinese/korean panels. They say they will replace unit if output drops by more than 20% but reduces the ammount by 4% per year they have been installed so if the performance dropped off after say 15 years you could maybe recoup 40% if your lucky.Where does that leave the customer?

It's a bit like cheap LED bulbs, is anybody really going to return them if they fail after say 20,000 hrs rather than the quoted 50,000. It's just not been thought through.

 

[itty]

Count me out. Won't put my reputation there.

Suspect most reputable installers will feel the same and probably return to the electrical contracting element of their business. I don't think that anybody that has anything about them will hang around feeding on the scraps after 12 dec. Unfortunately this probably means that the industry will be populated by installers that have no other choice than to hang around, for one reason or another.