Those of you like me who do both PV and Thermal will have been thrilled by today's announcement that the domestic side of RHI is to be delayed until summer 2013. It has already been delayed since April 2011!! What a bunch of hand job merchants. They are planning to extend the Renewable Heat Premium Payment. Yippee. They can do this at no cost because the budget is drastically underspent. It worked something like this... I'll give you £300.00 now, but I won't tell you what you will receive for the next twenty years. Little wonder the take up was tiny.
In domestic terms, renewable heat is probably more important than electricity. It is not just solar, but all the other technologies as well. The technologies are of little threat to the energy giants.
I put this down to staff at DECC not being the sharpest knives in the draw, having little understanding of renewables and never ever had the pressure to earn a living. Salary is there every month, even if you are a complete failure, which they are.
There has been no effective incentive programme for solar thermal and other renewable heat technologies since summer 2010. DECC will kill the industry through their own incompetence, ignorance and idleness. I don't believe they are capable of some Machiavellian plan to destroy Renewables, they are simply not clever enough. If you are failing or overspent announce a postponement.
This is just good old government by cock up.
In domestic terms, renewable heat is probably more important than electricity. It is not just solar, but all the other technologies as well. The technologies are of little threat to the energy giants.
I put this down to staff at DECC not being the sharpest knives in the draw, having little understanding of renewables and never ever had the pressure to earn a living. Salary is there every month, even if you are a complete failure, which they are.
There has been no effective incentive programme for solar thermal and other renewable heat technologies since summer 2010. DECC will kill the industry through their own incompetence, ignorance and idleness. I don't believe they are capable of some Machiavellian plan to destroy Renewables, they are simply not clever enough. If you are failing or overspent announce a postponement.
This is just good old government by cock up.
, they have no idea of the cost implications and therefore too scared to commit, At present I have a number of Biomass deals hanging in the balance based on the RHI but our company will not commit those deals until there is a guarenteed income for our customers, with the delays I am worried still it will not be available and we put this forward to our customers.
