Feed-In Tariffs at last go live today which is great news for the UK. A policy that empowers us to do something about our energy bills and about the centralised, wasteful and bureacratic energy market that currently exists.
Encouraging us to do something ourselves – and to produce energy at home, taking care of what we use and when we use it is just good sense. Supporters talk about the price of PV falling as volumes rise and this is right – and in more ways than many imagine.
Currently, the companies providing PV and other technologies need to charge a reasonable amount because their costs are so high: getting certified, sourcing equipment, educating the market, training staff – and ultimately building a whole supply chain. This will change dramatically over the next months and years.
Business models like ours will hopefully dramatically reduce the cost of getting involved. We hope that the UK will begin to feel like a different place. And maybe if we all get excited, we can get the UK off the bottom of the renewable league table. That will be a relief.
Just thought I would link in Jeremy Leggett’s Guardian response to Georg Monbiot from March 18th. I like it. Read it here.
Encouraging us to do something ourselves Feed-In Tariffs at last go live today which is great news
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Gordon Brown has emerged as a fan of solar energy – solar thermal, in his case. He revealed during the second of the televised leaders’ debates that he has solar thermal panels on his Scottish home. Solar thermal doesn’t come under the current Feed-in Tariff, but he will receive payments once the Renewable Heat Incentive begins in April 2011. Companies such as SolarUK have already seen an increase in interest from householders as the details of the RHI have become clearer.