On Nov 9, 11:31*am, Roger Chapman wrote:
On 09/11/2011 11:09, Mark wrote:





I wonder how many KW £30,000 buys?
* about 300,000

* Is that W or KW?
Kwh
Over what period? *(I want to know the power output)

Your original question related to a school spending £30,000. I don't
know the answer for sure but if £15,000 was the benchmark for a 4Kw
array then I think it reasonable to assume the school got a 10 [edited] Kw
array for their money.

School = Local Authority = Procurement system with "approved
contractors" therefore make no sensible assumptions about control of
costs and common sense!

This is not an LA school.

Unfortunately 'approved contractors' are the only route to the higher
FITS. PV panels, like some other home projects, would make good DIY
schemes and would be viable at much lower rewards.

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No Roger, I did not mean an MCC approved contractor (which is a
prerequisite for qualifying for FIT) but a Local Authority Approved
Contractor which basically means we know which bits of paper to wave
at the faceless ones in the back office so we get on the list, but in
general will charge through the nose for this and then deliver the
cheapest way to us while extracting the highest price we can screw out
of the local authority. A second tier on top of MCC registration and
another factor into why our council taxes are high.