My mother’s house had solar panels fitted. They failed about 4 months after installation. The Company that made them however, failed 2 months after they were installed.
Can someone explain the maths to me for rooftop solar?
It doesn’t make sense to me. All the government got to do is put carbon tax which will cause the electricity supply to switch green and allow economies of scale and lower price with not needing to install in stupid places like on top of houses. Mandate insulation, incentives induction hobs and heat pumps the we are done.
>The government awarded the administration of the grants to ICF, who had promised to deliver it in six weeks – other companies said fully implementing such a system would take at least 15 weeks – but ICF was not challenged by the department to explain how it could deliver, the report found.
Civil service incompetence or back handers as usual then
When this was announced we were excited- we’ve been doing up our home and were happy to put money into making it more energy efficient if we could offset some (supposedly 50%) of the cost into a grant. Our windows/doors were useless at keeping heat in, we have an old gas boiler and we’re well positioned for solar.
Looking into it however, they’d made it purposefully shit to try and do.
Basically you:
1. Pay to have a **primary** measure done (from their specific list), which has to be done by an approved installer
2. Then you get (in our case) up to 50% off a **secondary** measure (capped at £5k) again from their approved installers
Our house is well insulated, so the only thing off the primary list we could pick would have been a heat pump to replace our boiler. That would have been something like £15k!
On the secondary list, and our main issue with heatloss, would be replacing our windows/doors which despite being double glazed etc. are genuinely the worst constructed glazed units you’ve ever seen. Like a sieve, some don’t even close properly.
However _because_ our existing ones were technically double glazing we didn’t qualify.
Even if we _had_ of qualified, getting our windows/doors redone would have capped out at £5k.
Except we would have spent about £30k because of going over the cap on the secondary and having to buy an amazingly expensive heat pump for the primary.
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My mother’s house had solar panels fitted. They failed about 4 months after installation. The Company that made them however, failed 2 months after they were installed.
Can someone explain the maths to me for rooftop solar?
It doesn’t make sense to me. All the government got to do is put carbon tax which will cause the electricity supply to switch green and allow economies of scale and lower price with not needing to install in stupid places like on top of houses. Mandate insulation, incentives induction hobs and heat pumps the we are done.
>The government awarded the administration of the grants to ICF, who had promised to deliver it in six weeks – other companies said fully implementing such a system would take at least 15 weeks – but ICF was not challenged by the department to explain how it could deliver, the report found.
Civil service incompetence or back handers as usual then
When this was announced we were excited- we’ve been doing up our home and were happy to put money into making it more energy efficient if we could offset some (supposedly 50%) of the cost into a grant. Our windows/doors were useless at keeping heat in, we have an old gas boiler and we’re well positioned for solar.
Looking into it however, they’d made it purposefully shit to try and do.
Basically you:
1. Pay to have a **primary** measure done (from their specific list), which has to be done by an approved installer
2. Then you get (in our case) up to 50% off a **secondary** measure (capped at £5k) again from their approved installers
Our house is well insulated, so the only thing off the primary list we could pick would have been a heat pump to replace our boiler. That would have been something like £15k!
On the secondary list, and our main issue with heatloss, would be replacing our windows/doors which despite being double glazed etc. are genuinely the worst constructed glazed units you’ve ever seen. Like a sieve, some don’t even close properly.
However _because_ our existing ones were technically double glazing we didn’t qualify.
Even if we _had_ of qualified, getting our windows/doors redone would have capped out at £5k.
Except we would have spent about £30k because of going over the cap on the secondary and having to buy an amazingly expensive heat pump for the primary.
Funnily enough we decided fuck that.