End in sight for Rent a Roof companies

Yut_Man

where I live all the solar panels on council houses are not on old peoples house but houses that have kids and a nice new car outside there houses. My area has a large council estate. If you walk around the area you notice the council houses. they all have the latest high efficiency double glazed windows, best A+ efficient Central heating boilers, new roofs, fancy iron gates. PVC doors front and back and usually a nice people carrier outside. The private owned houses are tatty, some even have single glass wooden frames all rotten. I gave up on fairness a long time ago when my neighbour who has never worked drives a £20k car, but cant work because of stress. He even gets more benefits because he drinks. I know its not much to do with solar but a few are saying its unfair, life is unfair and you have to do the best you can. Its the ones that work for there living that pays for it all. I do like the idealistic view a few people have about life.

beedydad

Cardew wrote: »

Martin has stated in his latest letter that many Rent a Roof firms have indicated they will not accept further orders. However A Shade Greener, Homesun and ISIS have indicated they will continue.

A Shade Greener have this announcement on their website:




If their new business model allows a profit to be made on a FIT of 16.8p/kWh(for Rent a Roof firms) it puts into perspective the huge profits being made by the Rent a Roof industry.
The ‘Clean up the Industry’ comment is interesting and brings me to:


Homesun are a firm that introduced a payment of £500 fee and £5 monthly ‘maintenance charge’ for their ‘free’ system, together with claims of huge savings for the in-house consumption.

Someone on another thread reported that Homesun had sent him an email which stated.



If they felt £500 and £5 monthly was appropriate for an FIT of 43.3p/kWh the mind boggles to contemplate what they consider will be an appropriate ‘price point’ for their SolarShare programme with a FIT of 16.8p!

On the ISIS website, under their ‘How much can I save banner’ (from a 3kWp system) they still have the following:



'£300 a year is typical' eh? This despite experience and EST estimate showing that a quarter of that would be a good saving.

No doubt some poor souls will believe it is possible.

Cardew - I am sure Rent a roof mob, as you have quoted, will continue at least in the short term as they more than likely have a stock pile of kits ready to continue their rampage on "free" roofs. Therefore even with a reduced income from FIT's it would still make business sense to install them and get the reduced FIT rather then have them sitting around festering in some lock up!

Regards

larkim

Waited a few days to hear from Eon's Solar Exchange team, but picked up the phone to them today in the absence of hearing anything. The customer services chap explained that they are cancelling all non-surveyed applications, but where the survey has been completed and documentation returned they expect to fulfil their obligations, trying to sneak into the 8th December window.

So free-loaders like myself may still be able to help Eon and their partners make profits off other electricity users and tax payers, provided they get their act into gear.

I'm still fully expecting them to cancel on me, citing some delay perhaps from my mortgage provider or some other complication, but here's hoping (in a very selfish way!)

Matt

munchkin88

whasup wrote: »

I'm pretty sure RaR schemes will continue. I visited a solar PV client of mine today and he told me costs have dropped dramatically over the last 6 months and are currently about £1.05 per watt plus the inverter. He's a small company so the big outfits will be paying a lot less than that.

They're manic at the moment. 9 orders in the last 2 days. Panels are ok - the problem is getting hold of inverters.

£1.05 a watt? What panels are they using to get that price along with the inverter?!?!? Everywhere is going to busy, we took 70 orders last week and we have 300 installs to complete before 1st December. Panels aren't an issue, its the inverters that im lacking.

I think RaR will slowly start to die off in all honesty, you'll still have the major companies on it but the small companies will leave it as its all about finance. If its not viable or the payback is increased by 8-10 years, then they aren't going to bother. I think the RaR schemes are good for some people, but obviously they are not for everyone, depends on when you are int he property and when you can use your electric.