MCS 001 Clause 8

The Solar King · Nov 15, 2011

This looks fun. It comes into effect on December 1st:

To Quote:

"A contract for the sale and installation of a system shall be entered into only between an MCS certified Company and a Customer. An MCS certified Company may carry out work under subcontract to another MCS certified Company in which case clause 10 must be satisfied. If the MCS certified Company obtains sales leads from any third party, the Company must require that the third party complies with all the relevant requirements of the MCS standards and Consumer Code. The Company will be responsible for any non-compliance.”

May be we can wave bye-bye to the double glazing salesmen who don't perish with the changes in FITs

How are the Tescos, and other non MCS parasite sellers going to get round this one? Will they become MCS accredited? My experience of the operation of at least one brokerage type company suggests you would be in breach as soon as you talked to them!

SRE · Nov 15, 2011

Have you got a link to the new document? When REAL sent out the info that it was changing I couldn't find it anywhere!

I suspect the Tesco's etc will just go down the MCS route, they will be used to having this sort of thing in place for their other business models and they won't be bothered if they breach the code, it'll just be a rap on the wrist and told not to do it again. It's a completely different ball game for a corporate giant like Tesco etc.

TedM · Nov 15, 2011

Well at least MCS have done what they promised to do following lots of people bringing this up as a complaint.

But, as SRE says, REAL have form for doing not very much to actually enforce the rules.

SRE, some of the text is in this (p10) - http://www.microgenerationcertifica... Draft v1.0 - For consultation 2011.10.25.pdf

which is out for consultation until 30th November. See The Microgeneration Certification Scheme - Consultations for more on that.