Mark with all due respect it's clap trap to actually say you know it works but don't offer the proof that I asked for. Just saying you know something is not really an argument in favour of something.
I posted that I'm open minded and will glady cede if it can be proved that PV systems work, at this time, in the UK to the extent that they are a viable proposition.
I'm not quite sure what you are meaning when you say that there are no guarantees in any renewable source of energy whatever they are. But you sell your PV system on an average yield. What is that an average of if you can't guarantee any yield. If you had 10 panels of 125watts per panel installed what would be my average yield.
Are you seriously convinced that carbon taxes are paid by the industry. Is that the same as the fuel taxes for airlines, who raised their fares to pay them,the same as the electrical suppliers have by raising their tarrifs. The biggest rise was for key meter users who as I pointed out are normally the poorest in our society. So your industry relies on wealthy clients who have a large amount of capital around to buy a gimmick and then is subsidised by others, who can barely afford to keep warm in a winter.
Would your social housing scheme be installing the system free of charge, but you claiming the FIT to cover "costs" and the tenant get's "free electricity" or is there another kind of scheme.
Mark I can't say that I hope you prosper in this. I could not earn money knowing that the very source of that money is made from people that struggle to heat their homes in winter due to horrendous charges by companies that make millions upon millions and raised prices for some gimmick. If the system was proved to be vialbe then I would gladly contribute to it's development. If it worked then there would be no incentives as it would float on it's own. The exercise is a placebo by western governments to show they really care for the enviroment by supporting these snake oil schemes. At no cost to the government, no cost to the electrical supplier but to the cost of customers.
The most ironic thing in all this that perhaps 80% of the panels used in Europe are made in Japan and the far east, great carbon footprint
OK OK we seem to of hijacked the original post here and I will apologise for that BUT come on seriously you need to get to speed on your facts.
What PROOF do you need, Copy of my most recent electric bill. Photocopy of my FITS cheque? How can I proof this works to a individual who has made up their mind, possibly from misinformed information, that the technology doesn't work!
I have a 2.5Kw system on my roof. South facing. 40 degree pitch no shaddow. I live near Norwich in Norfolk and is a good area according to irradiation information. Over the past 12 months my electric bill was £1.25! Yes seriously £1.25 for the last 12 months. We are a three bed detached house, wife at home bar one day a week (Well I do make her do one days work!) 3 yr old here and at playgroup, 5 year old at school. Average house hold. Not average electric bill. I do not have a daily monitor on my system just a FITs meter, running total. Yes I get my good days and bad ones. Some days I can generate and export and others just generate. I can manage our household needs and sometimes not. The cost is not a true reflective as I fitted it and paid cost price materials so Its not fair to judge on that. If this were on a clients house with the same parameters it would pay back in 8 years and return at a average 8%. What guarantee can be given?
Tell me, How is the output or yield of a wind turbine calculated and sold to a client? This is a 11KVA turbine it will produce 11KVA per year? No! or is it calculated form average wind in that area over the last X years. The exact same thing is done with PV. We have 22years average irradiation figures to work from for a particular area, not as some think the UK in general but down to the nearest city or town. This tells you the average for that area. There's far more information needed also. Orientation of roof, Pitch angle, Height, type and make of panel type and make of inverter, DC cable length etc.
Am I seriously convinced that the FITs come from Carbon Taxes? Yes. Do I think these taxes have originated from the consumer? Yes. But its not just the hard done by consumer is it? I like the fact you focus on the OAP or poorest in society going cold in winter. I pay my utility bills just the same as you do and the rest of society so why is this not in your factors. The taxes have been paid and still will be regardless of if there's a renewable intensive and please do not forget these intensives are not just on PV there on wind turbines, biomass, micro CHP and Hydro.
The combined shared ownership scheme in the planning the FITs will go to the home owner or percentage there of dependant on share percentage. It is not a "Free of charge" scheme. Yes the cost will be on the value of the property, no different for what we do on private developments. The occupant gets the cheep electricity and the FITs. They also get the benefit of higher insulation values, rain water harvesting and air source heat pump heating systems. Not bad hey?
Thanks for your kind words of support but I'm sorry to disappoint you when I say we are prospering! I have no guilt or believe that the technology is being paid for by a starving, cold and hungry OAP shivering in a damp council flat somewhere! The industry is being supported by people who wish to invest as the banks are a crock of crap now. The developers have jumped aboard because they stand a better chance of getting planning on a renewable development than a standard one and why not be in it. High moral grounds don't put food on the table either!
With all due respect and no malice intended I will not try and swing a vote as it were. If you truly believe its a floored system for the rich who want to waste money and see the poor starve well you're entitled to your opinion. I respect that right. However I don't understand the finger pointing directed at PV and no other source of renewable. Why is this technology alone for discrimination?
Mark.