Rok and solar PV installations

Equaliser123

Heard this morning that Rok have gone into administration.

Anyone any views on what this will do for the solar PV market in the short term as they seemed to be behind the cheapest providers (Green Project, Tesco and, I understand, M&S).

I can only see upward pressure on prices in the short term as a big and established provider is taken out of the market.

penrhyn

Didn't know they were involved in Solar installations.
There business model seems to be maintenance contracts in the public sector. Now that government funding has dried up the model fails.
If the FITs were decreased or removed (one can only hope) then the free solar PV firms would go to the wall as well.

Equaliser123

penrhyn wrote: »

Didn't know they were involved in Solar installations.
There business model seems to be maintenance contracts in the public sector. Now that government funding has dried up the model fails.
If the FITs were decreased or removed (one can only hope) then the free solar PV firms would go to the wall as well.

Yep, they do installations for Green Project and Tesco mainly and were lined up to do M&S.

munchkin88

Hi all. Yes ROK did do our installations on Green Project and Tesco but we now have a different installer who is taking their completed assessments and booked installs.

Its very sad because no one at ROK knew this was coming. But all tesco and green project installs will be proceeding.:)