Free solar panel discussion

BrummyGit

At the moment there is no final outcome - £5 per month is a stopper for me. But at least I understand the issues now.

oxters

From my quick scan of this I don't think the freebie system is available in Scotland but I wonder what the savings are estimated for North East Scotland (Aberdeen)?
£12.5k is a lot of money

Cardew

oxters wrote: »

From my quick scan of this I don't think the freebie system is available in Scotland but I wonder what the savings are estimated for North East Scotland (Aberdeen)?
£12.5k is a lot of money

An installer will be able to give you an accurate figure after looking at your house.

Depends on it being exactly South Facing, correct pitch and not shaded.

If all things are spot on you should get around 700kWh to 750kWh per 1kWp installed.

In very round figures £12.5k should get you a 3kWp system with an output of around 2,200kWh per year.

That would give you an income of approx £940 from subsidies and selling back to the grid. Plus perhaps as much as £100 saving from using electricity in house.

In round figures £1,000 pa income.

That figure is variable, depending on location and how big a system you can get for £12.5k

Nang

Are FITS linked to inflation? My supplier never mentioned this:-

Had a chap who wrote to me through the web site, he says :-

"My question to you is this, and I realise you may not know yet, but the tariff is said to be index linked and as they have just released the inflation rate figure of 3.7% I was wondering:

A) At what time of year does the inflation figure take effect on the tariff

Am I right in thinking that the inflation rate of 3.7% should now take the tariff up to 42.8p"

Any of you clever chaps know owt about this.

Cardew

FITS are certainly inflation linked.

However it will take an annual figure at some date in the year, so it might not be 3.7%, and applies it at a later date.

For instance the Government takes the inflation figure for the year to 30 Sep and applies it to pensions/social security payments on 06 April the following year.

Gizmosmum_2

It's the Retail price index which is currently 4.8%. :T

Gizmosmum_2

Sorry if I've missed this but is it possible to divert electric to your immersion heater in the summer rather than feed it back into the grid? I know it wouldn't do anything in the Winter but in the Summer it might provide a better return than feeding into the grid.

Thinking about it as I write this all you really need to do is put your immersion heater on timer to come on through the day during peak hours - have I lost the plot??

JustineR_2

Hi - I also received the Sol et Libre brochure this week. It looked good, so I called the company and spoke to one of their Directors. They are a new company, but part of a much bigger European Company. They are currently offering to install free solar panels on homes throughout the South Coast. They benefit from the standard PV Feed-in Tariff scheme (like A Shade Greener and ISIS Solar). Service so far is very good.....I will be signing and returning my contract and then monitoring progress.

Cardew

Gizmosmum wrote: »

Sorry if I've missed this but is it possible to divert electric to your immersion heater in the summer rather than feed it back into the grid? I know it wouldn't do anything in the Winter but in the Summer it might provide a better return than feeding into the grid.

Thinking about it as I write this all you really need to do is put your immersion heater on timer to come on through the day during peak hours - have I lost the plot??

This has been discussed in the threads in the 'Green' forum.

It is not that simple assuming you have gas CH.

An immersion heater is normally 3kW and together with the 'background' consumption(fridges appliances etc) you might be using 3.5kW

Only rarely will(even a large system) produce 3kW - around noon on a clear summer's day - and never in winter.

So if you turn on Immersion heater when you are say generating 2kW(which is still a good output) you will use and pay for 1.5kW from the mains supply. In that case you would have been cheaper to heat your tank with gas.

As I say discussed in depth in the green forum.

Gizmosmum_2

Thanks Cardew - I'll have a look. No gas though - oil only we're about 8 miles from a gas mains! I'm thinking of topping up the heat rather than pv as the primary source I understand the pv won't do it all - especially in the North!:eek: