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MSE News: Certainty for households as Government solar subsidy bid defeated
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This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story:
"The Supreme Court today refused the Government permission to appeal a ruling its solar subsidy cuts were unfair..."
"The Supreme Court today refused the Government permission to appeal a ruling its solar subsidy cuts were unfair..."
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Wow what a surprise - NOT. Just because you're the Government does not mean you can act illegally even if some people agree with the principle of why you are trying to do it.
What a complete waste of money trying to appeal was!
The Con Dems try to do it with solar panels.
Ed Balls tried to do this with Sharon Shoesmith.
It would be nice if politicians started to learn from history.Debt LBM (08/09) £11,641. DEBT FREE APRIL 2021.
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This is the LPG,Heating Oil, Solid and Other Fuels board
Have you put this here by mistake?
Would be better in the Green and Ethical or even Electricity boards surely?0 -
I suppose technically it is an "other fuel" (nuclear fusion in the sun!) but it would seem to sit better with all the other solar PV threads in Green & Ethical.This is the LPG,Heating Oil, Solid and Other Fuels board
Have you put this here by mistake?
Would be better in the Green and Ethical or even Electricity boards surely?Are you for real? - Glass Half Empty??
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I think the subsidy scheme is a scam, whereby even very poor people who can barely afford to heat their homes in winter are paying to subsidise solar panels. Thanks to the EU carbon targets, the UK government were prepared to spend our money to allow some people to have cheap solar panels. I know one millionaire who had loads of panels placed on his roof, at his expense. So, if you are struggling to heat your home, cheer yourself up with the thought that some of your heating bill goes to help millionaires make more money.
Unfortunately the government did not expect so many companies to enter the panel installation market. Now there's a first, the government making a mistake which costs us money.
End of rant.
Warning: This forum may contain nuts.0 -
I think the subsidy scheme is a scam, whereby even very poor people who can barely afford to heat their homes in winter are paying to subsidise solar panels. Thanks to the EU carbon targets, the UK government were prepared to spend our money to allow some people to have cheap solar panels. I know one millionaire who had loads of panels placed on his roof, at his expense. So, if you are struggling to heat your home, cheer yourself up with the thought that some of your heating bill goes to help millionaires make more money.
Unfortunately the government did not expect so many companies to enter the panel installation market. Now there's a first, the government making a mistake which costs us money.
End of rant.
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Couldn't it go on the 'I'm a greedy bar steward' board?
GGThere are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.0 -
How much carbon was leaked into the environment in fighting this non-winnable case?0
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Being serious for just a moment.
This country has not got a snow ball's chance in hell of meeting the legally enforceable agreed target of 20% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020 (geddit?).
Now that "tax" subsidies are being slashed (in my view correctly) in an attempt to maintain our banking economy's link to "the gold standard" of a "Triple A" credit rating; the OECD will have its eye on this "Compulsory Unmitigated Payment" and how efficiently the Department of Energy and Climate Change is administering the "imputed tax".
As recently as Wednesday a spokes person who knows, was briefing that this final legal challenge was a £700 million decision and another 20,000 installations were installed and registered in the week leading up to 03 March alone - so with a fixed budget something else is likely to get cut.
On the plus side, the export rate of 3.1 pence per unit is thought to be too low, especially as in some part of Europe "net metering" can now support the investment in PV panels: That is in Southern Spain and Sicily.
Lots of sunshine in the day time versus oil fuel generated mains electricity at night.0 -
John_Pierpoint wrote: »Being serious for just a moment.
This country has not got a snow ball's chance in hell of meeting the legally enforceable agreed target of 20% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2020 (geddit?).
Being only slightly serious for a moment:
An exceptionally mild winter in 2020 just might help us hit the target. And if global warming is as big a threat as some pundits say, we might just get such warm weather (a bit like today's mid-summer temperatures!)0 -
What the "granny tax" taketh, the FiT giveth. Justice, I say. Are you for real? - Glass Half Empty??
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