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Are you not busy ?
Where abouts in the country are you?

North West, almost all enquiries are from people with properties that can't make the D rating. There's hardly anything going on in a 40 mile radius of where we are.
 
We had our property EPC'd today.

The Energy Assesor had the same opinion though as like SRE we have a LOT of oil fired properties around here with no mains gas, al lot of old housing stock built in the 30's with no cavity wall insulation, so they struggle to get a D, wheras in his mind it is exactly those properties that would benefit from the PV.. he reckoned it was about face, and the A and B's don't need it .... so the more you need it the higher your FIT should be :) and make it attractive and easy for those that need it , and not so attractive for those that don't.
 
We had our property EPC'd today.

The Energy Assesor had the same opinion though as like SRE we have a LOT of oil fired properties around here with no mains gas, al lot of old housing stock built in the 30's with no cavity wall insulation, so they struggle to get a D, wheras in his mind it is exactly those properties that would benefit from the PV.. he reckoned it was about face, and the A and B's don't need it .... so the more you need it the higher your FIT should be :) and make it attractive and easy for those that need it , and not so attractive for those that don't.

Make that Energy Assessor Prime Minister!!!!! He's got my vote :)
 
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I do feel for you chaps, passing an EPC on any of our jobs we get is a given.

I think even if there wasnt this EPC crap, business wouldnt be any better. PV is back to a cottage industry, from 2 week (last yr) now to planning/"hoping" for 1 a month. The mad rushes are getting less and less November was stupidily busy, February was managable, August we're done and dusted although one might come through (pending planning). Some would call it a hobby rather than a business !!
 
I do feel for you chaps, passing an EPC on any of our jobs we get is a given.

I think even if there wasnt this EPC crap, business wouldnt be any better. PV is back to a cottage industry, from 2 week (last yr) now to planning/"hoping" for 1 a month. The mad rushes are getting less and less November was stupidily busy, February was managable, August we're done and dusted although one might come through (pending planning). Some would call it a hobby rather than a business !!

Same here, there is just not that level of interest anymore and we have been advertising!
 
I do feel for you chaps, passing an EPC on any of our jobs we get is a given.

I think even if there wasnt this EPC crap, business wouldnt be any better. PV is back to a cottage industry, from 2 week (last yr) now to planning/"hoping" for 1 a month. The mad rushes are getting less and less November was stupidily busy, February was managable, August we're done and dusted although one might come through (pending planning). Some would call it a hobby rather than a business !!

We'd definitely have more work if we didn't have to deal with EPC's but probably not the same amount as last year. I'd hate to go back to the stresses of November though - a happy medium is all we're asking for.
 
We had our property EPC'd today.

The Energy Assesor had the same opinion though as like SRE we have a LOT of oil fired properties around here with no mains gas, al lot of old housing stock built in the 30's with no cavity wall insulation, so they struggle to get a D, wheras in his mind it is exactly those properties that would benefit from the PV.. he reckoned it was about face, and the A and B's don't need it .... so the more you need it the higher your FIT should be :) and make it attractive and easy for those that need it , and not so attractive for those that don't.

That's kind of why I asked Worcester as I would have thought those with lowest EPC are the ones that need it the most.
 
Me thinks they want to turn the focus off FIT onto their new baby the 'Green Con' oops, Green Deal, which will allow a commercial loan at 7% taken as a second charge on your property to pay for your PV to get you up to a D or better. And of course being green con oops deal, funded means they don't have to allow for FIT (I know who pays FIT they just have to count it in and out..) But then, maybe I'm a cynic..

It definitely is linked up with the Green Deal and overalll energy programme of trying to bring the housing stock up to D, unfortunately they have shot themselves in the foot by making attaining D a minimum requirement.

(See elswhere on Green Deal, all sectors predict a DROP in stalltions of cavity wall, double glazing, loft insulation when the Green Deal comes in...)

So the answhere to you question is Politics, as opposed to carbon / CO2 reduction.
 
I disagree worcester

I firmly believe the Government wants centralised energy production so they can stay in the pay of the big 6.
They don't want people generating and using their own electricity, looks bad on the profit and loss you know, upsets the shareholders over their breakfast.
 
@Moggy1968 OK, but all they have to do to achive that is to modify the FIT like germany where you choose to get to use the power your generate at one rate or export it at another. (another comprehensive review...so I guess they have discounted that)

The reason deemed is set at 50% is that the average export is far higher - probably nearer 75%, as people are yet astute enough to fully manage what is generated, so the big 6 and all the other FIT providers are actually laughing all the way to the FREE Energy Bank ... (I still haven't worked out quite where / who the unmetered export is credited to..)
 
I think one thing that is stopping them is the lack of smart metering, they don't want to pay for that.
It also still leaves the fact that people are using their own energy. The big six don't want that, they want to produce everything because thats what makes profits
Personally I would be happy with a lower FiT and better export rate.
If they bought the energy at 10p, they are selling for around 15 so they are still making a tidy pound or 2 on that.
 

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