Is or has anyone responded to the RHI consultation?
Has anyone actually read the RHI consultation?
I must admit that I have not. Yet. This time on a Friday is not the best time for me to be reading 116 pages of consultation and Greg barkers face on the front page has put me right off, but he seems to be saying all the right things. The mood seems to be a bit more renewables friendly in the last couple of weeks. I'm feeling pretty positive about things generally, however...
We are hearing that a lot of 'pv guys' are getting biomass training as it may be TNBT. We are also hearing plenty of stories about experienced heating engineers and biomass companies getting system design/spec wrong, in some cases seriously wrong, and in some cases already going bust.
A good spark can fill in the gaps on the woeful PV training courses and with a bit of research can get the job done right. A good spark can go on a biomass course and still have no real idea about the intricacies of heating system design and the regulations that go with it. I learnt the electrical regs over the several years of serving my time but have little chance of learning everything I need to know about heating in a few months. We have teamed up with some biomass/solid fuel experts who live and breathe wood burning and still it's a lot to take in.
PV is pretty simple compared to some of the other technologies and I am concerned that the cowboys are going to make a real mess of the heating side of things, Segen offering heat pumps worries me... a lot. We could do without all renewables being tarnished with the same horse crap that PV has had this year.
So this is a sort of a plea to those who are diversifying into the heating technologies, i know most of you here will want to do it right, respond to the RHI consultation. The G83/ofgem conference call this week has highlighted installer apathy to me, we are given these opportunities to have our say and most of us ignore it then complain afterwards that we were not listened to. I see the RHI as a great opportunity but i feel it could also set the industry back years if not implemented correctly.
Renewable Heat Incentive: consultation on proposals for a domestic scheme - Department of Energy and Climate Change
There is also a survey set up.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FSXJRXT
This is the link to the consultation, I had en email you might have also gotten stating the most important questions are: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27, 32, 34, 35, 39, 40, 44, 49, 60 and 63.
I'll be responding in the next few days.
Has anyone actually read the RHI consultation?
I must admit that I have not. Yet. This time on a Friday is not the best time for me to be reading 116 pages of consultation and Greg barkers face on the front page has put me right off, but he seems to be saying all the right things. The mood seems to be a bit more renewables friendly in the last couple of weeks. I'm feeling pretty positive about things generally, however...
We are hearing that a lot of 'pv guys' are getting biomass training as it may be TNBT. We are also hearing plenty of stories about experienced heating engineers and biomass companies getting system design/spec wrong, in some cases seriously wrong, and in some cases already going bust.
A good spark can fill in the gaps on the woeful PV training courses and with a bit of research can get the job done right. A good spark can go on a biomass course and still have no real idea about the intricacies of heating system design and the regulations that go with it. I learnt the electrical regs over the several years of serving my time but have little chance of learning everything I need to know about heating in a few months. We have teamed up with some biomass/solid fuel experts who live and breathe wood burning and still it's a lot to take in.
PV is pretty simple compared to some of the other technologies and I am concerned that the cowboys are going to make a real mess of the heating side of things, Segen offering heat pumps worries me... a lot. We could do without all renewables being tarnished with the same horse crap that PV has had this year.
So this is a sort of a plea to those who are diversifying into the heating technologies, i know most of you here will want to do it right, respond to the RHI consultation. The G83/ofgem conference call this week has highlighted installer apathy to me, we are given these opportunities to have our say and most of us ignore it then complain afterwards that we were not listened to. I see the RHI as a great opportunity but i feel it could also set the industry back years if not implemented correctly.
Renewable Heat Incentive: consultation on proposals for a domestic scheme - Department of Energy and Climate Change
There is also a survey set up.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FSXJRXT
This is the link to the consultation, I had en email you might have also gotten stating the most important questions are: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 24, 25, 27, 32, 34, 35, 39, 40, 44, 49, 60 and 63.
I'll be responding in the next few days.
i know you will do things properly and respond to the consultation appropriately. But there are many out there still looking for the next gravy train, consequences to customer be damned.
