Cold called re free solar panels.

zeupater

Cardew wrote: »

The report was 16 months ago and the newspaper article 15 months old.

A question! Do you consider the fitting of PV to social projects and council tenants justifies the FIT scheme?

Hi

... which in turn is based on data relating to installations between 2 and 3 years ago .... Executive Summary (p4) - "This document provides a summary of the first year of operation of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) scheme 1 April 2010 to 31 March 2011" ... http://www.ofgem.gov.uk/Sustainability/Environment/fits/Documents1/FITs%20Annual%20Report%202010%202011.pdf

The scheme has now been in operation for 3x longer and has 14x the number of installations .... time is a variable, data is variable, the Monbiot article is a fixed point historical document ..... unfortunately both times & perceptions change ...

As for the question, I'll ask one back ... what is the current breakdown of pv installations on rented accommodation as opposed to owner occupied, maybe this would help define the scope of the question within context ... perhaps the conversation can be continued in a more appropriate thread ?

HTH
Z

(Sorry, been busy ... started this post at about 12:30 ... )

Cardew

zeupater wrote: »

Hi



As for the question, I'll ask one back ... what is the current breakdown of pv installations on rented accommodation as opposed to owner occupied, maybe this would help define the scope of the question within context ... perhaps the conversation can be continued in a more appropriate thread ?

No idea, I suspect a very small proportion of the total number of installations. The great majority being owners of the installation or Rent a Roof companies.

However it would be no consolation to the 'poor' in a flat, who have to pay the FIT levy - regardless of who is collecting the subsidy.

Elainemary

Good morning folks. Glad to have found the new thread, but the old bickering still goes on. ( you know who you are. ) We, who search for answers, are NOT helped by it at all. While in the Caribbean this winter I noticed a HUGE increase in SV use - even on small homes. I know our weather ain't that great, ( and whatever happened to global WARMING?) but we are better off here and should be able to at least heat water from a SV panel. Any thoughts? (that aren't rude ).

silverwhistle

Christ! I'm afraid I don't have the testosterone nor the equipment to indulge in all the *****-waving arguments here, and I'm sorry to have poked the embers. As I explained in an initial post, I found it as a result of a search and, you may notice, subsequently found a better thread to research.

I didn't come on here to make a political point, and any conclusions I've come to are my own. I would add though, that in my scan of the responses (sorry, I didn't read them thoroughly) I noticed no response to my point about policy: i.e. if you think this policy is penalising the poor why not compensate for it in other ways? Nor have I seen any suggestion by the opponents of FITS (and as I intimated, the implementation does seem flawed) of how they would like to see the aims of the policy achieved (expand the market, BoP, lower costs etc.).

Whilst I've been abroad I've rented my (only) modest house to a housing association, at far less than market rent, and not increased it for 7 years as I felt a certain social obligation. I'll pre-empt all those who might say "why didn't you get PV earlier when the rates were higher and the tenant might have benefited?". As it took court orders to get access for the gas inspections for which the landlords are legally liable, I suggest you'll understand why. Why the carpet has partially disappeared from the upstairs landing (I've seen the inspection photos) gawd only knows..

I'm all for social housing and assistance to those that need it, and I've put my financial interests where my mouth is, but I'll repeat my view that arguments against PV and FITs based on certain people's poverty is a red-herring. Frankly a better target would be the increasing rates of return of the mainly foreign owned RECS, as reported a couple of days ago; and this impacts all of of us.