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GaryM
Approximately, how much is the average household electricity bill increased by to per year pay for the Feed in Tariff scheme?
It's a query due to a random mental nutcase on another forum accusing me of practically murdering old people becauce I'm the reason why their electricity bill is so high due to claiming a FiT!
I assumed it would be less than £10 per annum.
Had that with Banallsheds. Tell him he's a lying **** !!!!!!!
I think it is like most things when times are affluent a couple of pounds on bills here and there to subsidize technology is basically shrugged off.
Unfortunately because of the media attention given to PV as a whole, and these more austere times, it is looked at people who can afford the 6-10K for a system, is being subsidized by people who can not afford install them, and technically they are right.
I was very anti PV as a subsidized technology when the FIT was at the rate of 41.3 and to be honest I think it is also abhorrent that these rates are going to rise in line with inflation, If I were the government I would be looking at every means available to me to cap the rate at 41.3p.
The new lower rate I think is a little more palatable, though only just, because in all honesty I would imagine a vast majority of people installing PV up and down the country have very little interest in saving the planet, but making money, and though it is just a few pounds, in whichever form it takes, the bottom line is people that can afford to install it is being subsidized by the poorer who can't
For me the proportion of money thrown at inefficient technologies to the ratio of return still does not add up. For me while we still have the moon I would rather we piled money into tidal than sun, which only works when the sun shines, while tidal is much more reliable
Who knows what the future may bring.