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IT IS NOT 'MY' FIGURE!:mad:
True, but you presumably must have regarded it as something to potentially be taken seriously (qualitatively, if not quantitatively) when your prefaced your introduction of it with "...another issue is the drop-off in performance as they age ...".

As you said of my car, if all 'they' were doing was finding a contorted way of expressing the fact that maintenance costs would increase with age, then they were merely making a statement of the obvious :)

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As you said of my car, if all 'they' were doing was finding a contorted way of expressing the fact that maintenance costs would increase with age, then they were merely making a statement of the obvious
Yes, but when applying for a grant one has to insert figures for everything. I'm also surprised the drop in efficiency could be that high. Maybe they were thinking of solar panels?
 
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Ah well. I visited a solar farm on the south coast just before I retired, and the Chief Engineer told me they could not claim the full FIT (or some other Government support) if the land was not solely used for the solar panels.
 
Ah well. I visited a solar farm on the south coast just before I retired, and the Chief Engineer told me they could not claim the full FIT (or some other Government support) if the land was not solely used for the solar panels.
That sound quite credible - but presumably the "other use" of the land might possible more than make up financially for the reduction in FIT/whatever?

Having said that, even though 'credible', it does sound a little odd. The 'government support' is presumably to encourage the solar generation, and it's hard to see why simultaneous use of the land for additional purposes (arguably even "greener"!) should make any different to the government, provided only that the 'other use' does to detract from the energy generation.

Kind Regards, John
 
Secondly, surely reducing FIT payments makes it more desirable to be able to store your excess, not less?

The reduced FIT would be for new customers, if there are any.

But not making people who don't have a roof pay more for their electricity so that those better off than them can be paid to put a tiny amount of PV capacity into erratic use.

I'm in agreement but then I'm politically left of centre. Didn't know this group was full of lefties :cool:

That being said, I have to live in a country where the majority cast votes based on God knows what reasoning, I plot a course to survive in it. The MCS registered company (who have now folded and subsequently opened up shop as a supplier of fandangoed new boilers, is there Govt money in supplying those?) took a huge chunk of money and I need to try and recoup it before the system either becomes obsolete or packs in.

As for handing out money willynilly, I think someone already pointed out that Her Maj owns the sea bed around the UK which is just crazy. According to the Daily Mail she was getting 38 million pa from offshore turbines back in 2010.

Not exactly related but I read somewhere that LIDL picked up around a billion over the last 10 years in 'Public Development Funding', not solely from the UK admittedly. Talk of lefties, someone pointed out online somewhere that it's socialism for these corporations and large landowners, blunt capitalism for everyone else.
 
Nice to know the land isn't wasted.
The sheep are very useful. If they didn't graze, the shrubbery would have to be manually cut to stop it interfering with the panels. Having said that the sites I worked on probably spend more time down due to the poor quality of the inverters. I won't say what make they are but it's a well known (German sounding but French owned) company starting with 'S' who seem to be taking over every other company who produce anything electrical.
 

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