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harry wrote:
Thinking about it some more, it would depend very much on how ideal
their site was.
The weather in Scotland is against them but the panels shown are
rotating ones, (follow the sun) this makes a big difference.

No it doesn't.

You cant get out of the fact that aveerage scottish insolation is less
than 100W/sq meter.


Ok angling them increases their effective 'sadow' but even so it aint
brilliant and the COST of MAINTAINING all those servo motors..


I don't
see how they could get rotating ones for that money plus they take up
lots more space.
You would get more from the same sized panel compared to a fixed one.

But the very first sentence shows the bollock brain press in the
remark about "unplugging itself from the grid"

Dunno what the new FIT payment would be, it was £0.29 for a big
installation previously. The gov, site hasn't been updated.


Sounds about right.