Solar panels and energy crunch forum

This is a quick, short note to sum up how we feel our pv system installation went.

Throughout, you have all been professional, understanding, prompt, responsive and diligent. We will willingly and happily recommend your company to a friend and contacts in the future.

A special thanks to Stuart for all your help.

It is exceptionally lively topic for discussion. According to my knowledge i think that Feed in tariff system is designed to encourage power producers away from traditional fossil fuels, renewable energy, clean energy sources. The cash back system to encourage energy producers rose from fossil fuels Traditional design and renewable energy.

Because of the huge market of interest in the new solar feed-in tariffs, we have created a professional page.

To learn about this new reward system for early adopters of solar panels:

http://www.solar-panels.biz/uk-solar-panels-grants-tariffs.php

I'm glad to see the wisdom of this article ; if people reduced their usage - then there would be less need to invest in infrastructure upgrades and stop being so dependent on imported energy.

That does mean ending the scandal of burning north sea gas for the production of electricity, and its shareholders profits.

Energy belongs to the people it was stolen from us by Mrs Thatcher, and it is time now to take it back. Only then can you have a sensible policy for home insulation, with a subsequent improved attitude to global warming.

I'm glad to see the wisdom of this article, people need to reduce their usage.

Some Nutters are calling for renationalisation of the UK energy supply, because they do not like paying the present prices. Also, a shame some of the rag readers can not get their head around this fundamental concept of reduce demand for a disproportionately greater reduction in prices.

Such a shame they pick and choose when to be Tory and when to be socialist and do not know the difference.

The feed-in tariff, also known as the Fit scheme, has been available in the UK on April 1 2010 and is the electricity sector of the Clean Energy Cash Back Scheme which is a Government led plan to pay people who create their own electricity using green technologies such as photovoltaic.

The feed-in tariffs guarantee a minimum payment for the electric generated by your system, as well as payments for unused electricity exported to the grid, known as the export tariff. These payments will boost household savings, as bills will be reduced by using electricity generated on site and not importing power as most people do now.

The tariff is available to everyone including households, landlords, businesses and even communities and organisations like schools and village halls.

The money you receive depends on the size of the system you install. The exciting news is that the largest payments come with solar photovoltaic technology with as much as 21p per Kilowatt hour produced.

These tariffs should cover the initial cost of the installation of technology with a return of 8%. You should earn back the capital costs of your installation two or three times over the duration of the tariff scheme, in addition to reducing your energy, bills, solar PV tariffs are paid for 25 years, while most of the remaining technologies such as heat pumps will only benefit from 20 years of payments.

To apply for the feed-in tariff payments you must have the technology installed after 1 April 2010 by MCS accredited solar installers.

Find an MCS accredited installer:

http://www.solar-panels.biz/solar-panels-installations-quotes.php

PV solar panels are a proven and widely used technology in Europe, the US and Asia.

Since the introduction of the feed-in tariff (Fits Scheme) in April 2010, it has become a particularly attractive option for homes and commercial installations.

The technology benefits with being simple, reliable and exceptionally long lasting (Typically 30 years).

I however caution against feed-in tariffs that maybe too generous and go to the coffers of prominent business rather than domestic homes they were intended.

The level of subsidy provided for new micro generation systems, has been hijacked by larger scale commercial ventures installing solar farms which soaking up the support intended for you as a homeowner.

The government has to be generous to encourage homes to take part, but not allow influential business to swallow the funds available for such a scheme.

What better investment than to generate power from the sun freely, be paid for it and know that you are helping protect the planet for the future.

After much research, (allot from this website, thanks) we chose to install photovoltaic panels.

Yeah, that is just what we need, let's ratchet up the oil dependence society further notch and forget about investing in greener technology altogether.

So the latest government are happy to subsidise the banking industry to the tune of trillion Euros, the arms industry to the tune of billions, but we can not afford to subsidise a small, but growing industry that will help address our energy needs?

I do not have solar panels myself, but I think paying a small levy so that others can benefit, to reduce our over reliance on expensive fossil fuels, is a substantial investment. In the future, I hope to install myself.

The principle of everyone paying a bit towards the common and greater moral, even if we do not all benefit personally, is long established.