Cost of FiT scheme to general customer?

[GaryM]

Approximately, how much is the average household electricity bill increased by to per year pay for the Feed in Tariff scheme?

 

[malcolmsanford]

Just a few pounds I would imagine if that

 

[GaryM]

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.

 

[TedM]

On domestic bills (it is also effectively added to non-domestic) the average is about £2 a year.

You might point out that the CERT/CESP and ROC contributions (to pay for free/cheap light bulbs, insulation, wind farms and overpriced but subsidised EAGA boiler upgrades) adds about £20 a year

 

[malcolmsanford]

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

 

[solarsavings]

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 **** !!!!!!!

 

[Green]

Some guidelines in this article; Delaying cuts to feed-in tariffs would cost households less than £1 a year - 03 Nov 2011 - News from BusinessGreen

 

[GaryM]

Had that with Banallsheds. Tell him he's a lying **** !!!!!!!

Haha, it's him I'm refering to!

Just wish I had the opportunity of a face to face meeting with him.

 

[solarsavings]

Tell him you'll gladly meet him at the coach & horses Ickenham the **** will **** himself

 

[funboy57]

Thats one of my local watering holes