On Feb 26, 11:23*pm, "george [dicegeorge]"
wrote:
On 26/02/12 22:22, Dave Liquorice wrote:





On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:39:14 +0000, Martin Brown wrote:

Assuming you're on FIT, this is extremely expensive because you
will be losing 43p/unit that you put into your storage heaters,

That's not how it works AFAIK, the 43p is paid for generating it,
not
exporting it (there's a small additional payment for that), he
could
have solar powered 500W halogens lights in his garden and be paid
to
run them while the sun shines...

Yep.

The FIT is even more barking mad than it seems at first sight then.

Even more barking when you find out that if you don't have a fully
metered system you are deemed to export 50% of what you generate and
get the extra 3p/unit export rate for that 50%.

So you can use all the PV electricity lighting halogen lamps in your
back yard during the day and get paid the 43p/unit FiT for all those
units *and* extra 3p/unit of 50%.

Yes, but they are inventing a meter which measures how much you put back
in the grid so this last dodge will not be possible.
Labour invented the FIT scheme to encourage solar panels,
but left a few loopholes.
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There was a previous scheme to FIT but it is not so lucrative.
If you are going to have dispersed micro-generation, something of the
sort was neccessary. People have got used to the idea now. They are
popping up all round me now.
Where they came unstuck was they never realised that interest rates
would fall so low & people would buy PV to protect themselves.
At the moment PV is insignificant but when/if it becomes common, it
will be neccessary for updated smart meters will control them from a
central point (Smart grid)

PV news here
http://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/

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