I was part of a ground breaking team to deliver around 1,000 million watts of clean green solar power to the British National Grid, but then the large scale solar feed in tarriff was scrapped to save about 1% of what we spend on the NHS, about the same amount of money that is currently being spent on refurbishing Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport, so with no job security in the solar industry, I'm now driving a taxi for a living - tragic.
As I write, coincidentally the United Nations has just announced another massive increase in CO2 emissions! "World leaders are set to have more talks about climate change at the end of this month". Ho hum.
Possibly more relevantly, I have just invoiced a 4kW system - VAT at 5% £700 - straight to the treasury and a team of 9 people all in work undertaking the various tasks it takes to get every panel up on the customer's roof - and that doesn't include the suppliers and the import channel!.
@bobdvd continued... Solar needs to pay its own way, the older subsidy was expensive and remember that the money doesn't come from government grants, it comes from other energy customers, so we need to remember it is a cost. Solar energy needs to produce at an economically sustainable rate. There are no excuses about economies of scale anymore because recent reports have shown that there is oversupply in the global market causing profitability issues for manufacturers.
@bobdvd "the older subsidy was expensive". Not really. The total cost of the entire feed-in tariff scheme from April 2010-July 2011 was £21m, of which 35% is the household levy share. Contrast that with the £2.5 billion per year being spent on our nuclear liabilities.
Genius video, Tim Mustill ! (Keep watching, tho', after Dave's words end !). Parrotting other people's words..? Tragic that PM Dave & Greg Barker are delivering the wishes of foreign-owned Big Six energy companies, by slashing help for a UK growth industry, home-made green electricity. Social tenants face fuel poverty, schools lose green energy from roofs. But that's OK, 'cos PM Dave & a couple of ministers have solar on THEIR roofs already ! Rally at House of Commons, Tue 22 Nov at 2:30
wonderful video. so important more people are made aware of all these cuts of the really worthwhile things, which are just being relentlessly snipped away under the umbrella of neccessary deficit reducing etc etc....
such a major backtrack - crippling an industry (that is essential for not just our country but the planet) before it's really taken off.
thank the lord that someone has taken it upon themselves to make this video and highlight yet another Governmental u-turn. let's not let them slip this past the masses without a fight... well done producers xx
I was part of a ground breaking team to deliver around 1,000 million watts of clean green solar power to the British National Grid, but then the large scale solar feed in tarriff was scrapped to save about 1% of what we spend on the NHS, about the same amount of money that is currently being spent on refurbishing Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport, so with no job security in the solar industry, I'm now driving a taxi for a living - tragic.
ChuffChuffWoo 2 months ago
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1Nyro 2 months ago
Why did i get directed here after clicking on a retrotube vid?
MrDelusionalPenguin 3 months ago
very interesting. Great food for thought.
motaccam 3 months ago
As I write, coincidentally the United Nations has just announced another massive increase in CO2 emissions! "World leaders are set to have more talks about climate change at the end of this month". Ho hum.
Possibly more relevantly, I have just invoiced a 4kW system - VAT at 5% £700 - straight to the treasury and a team of 9 people all in work undertaking the various tasks it takes to get every panel up on the customer's roof - and that doesn't include the suppliers and the import channel!.
Tidalski 3 months ago
i feel sympathy for those whose jobs are at risk. however i do think they subsidy was artificially high. Solar energy needs to pay its own
bobdvd 3 months ago
@bobdvd continued... Solar needs to pay its own way, the older subsidy was expensive and remember that the money doesn't come from government grants, it comes from other energy customers, so we need to remember it is a cost. Solar energy needs to produce at an economically sustainable rate. There are no excuses about economies of scale anymore because recent reports have shown that there is oversupply in the global market causing profitability issues for manufacturers.
bobdvd 3 months ago
@bobdvd "the older subsidy was expensive". Not really. The total cost of the entire feed-in tariff scheme from April 2010-July 2011 was £21m, of which 35% is the household levy share. Contrast that with the £2.5 billion per year being spent on our nuclear liabilities.
Gunners32349 3 months ago
I should have mentioned trhat we only know the costs to July 11 - the Gvt hasn't published the most recent quarter figure yet.
Gunners32349 3 months ago
Genius video, Tim Mustill ! (Keep watching, tho', after Dave's words end !). Parrotting other people's words..? Tragic that PM Dave & Greg Barker are delivering the wishes of foreign-owned Big Six energy companies, by slashing help for a UK growth industry, home-made green electricity. Social tenants face fuel poverty, schools lose green energy from roofs. But that's OK, 'cos PM Dave & a couple of ministers have solar on THEIR roofs already ! Rally at House of Commons, Tue 22 Nov at 2:30
AlbanThurston 3 months ago
wonderful video. so important more people are made aware of all these cuts of the really worthwhile things, which are just being relentlessly snipped away under the umbrella of neccessary deficit reducing etc etc....
bronzemann 3 months ago
brilliant this film has been made
such a major backtrack - crippling an industry (that is essential for not just our country but the planet) before it's really taken off.
thank the lord that someone has taken it upon themselves to make this video and highlight yet another Governmental u-turn. let's not let them slip this past the masses without a fight... well done producers xx
SecretGardenHQ 3 months ago