Chris Huhne has announced that DECC will appeal to the Supreme Court against the Court of Appeal (and also Mr Justice Mitting’s) rulings. Clearly the aim is simply to maintain uncertainty and prevent a mini-rush as happened in November and December. The good news (such as there is) is that the more they appeal the...
DECC Loses FIT Appeal
on January 25, 2012 Leave a Comment
DECC this morning lost their appeal against the unlawfulness of their decision to reduce FITs from 12th December. We also understand that they were refused leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. Where does this leave us? Well, we believe that all installations since 12th December and through until midnight on 2nd March will receive...
FIT decision update
on January 23, 2012 Leave a Comment
Last Friday (20th Jan) DECC attempted to clarify part of the current confusion surrounding FITs. To cut a long story short, if the outcome of the current legal tussle goes in DECC’s favour, then they’ve guaranteed that those who installed since Dec 12th up until midnight on Mar 2nd will receive the 21p/kWh tariff (based...
How many appeal court judges does it take to change a light bulb?
on January 17, 2012 Leave a Comment
At least three apparently. What an utter waste of time and taxpayer’s money. We don’t really have much sympathy with Homesun or SolarCentury who lodged the legal action in the first place, although we appreciate that they are desperate to preserve the ‘rent-a-roof’ model; all this process is doing is prolonging uncertainty. But the fault...
Made it! Happy customers…
on December 12, 2011 Leave a Comment
We’ve made it through to the 12th December! Thanks very much to our customers – who have also been busy making cups of tea, and generally being understanding on deliveries that move, kit that doesn’t show, and tweaks in specification when the inverter of choice just was not available (only once). But we have been...
Something to say at last
on November 13, 2011 2 Comments
We’ve all been very busy for the last 2 weeks. We’re going to be very busy for the next 4 weeks. After that? Who knows. Too much to say. Too little time, and too confused to be honest. So what’s going...
FIT for nothing
on November 2, 2011 1 Comment
Predictably, there’s been a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth at the minister’s decision to halve the Feed-In Tariff and to impose a jaw-droppingly precipitous deadline (12 Dec). But really, should we be surprised? I don’t think so. From inception the whole FIT process has been incompetently handled at every level from DECC down....
Costa del Powys
on October 1, 2011 Leave a Comment
I’ve been out seeing more potential partners this week, this time in North and Mid Wales. The weather has been absolutely stunning across the country, but I never thought I’d be driving through Wales at the end of September in 29 degrees Celsius! The reception from local installation businesses was, I’m glad to say, equally...
Recruiting Installation Partners
on September 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
I’ve spent part of the last week in the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire areas meeting prospective installation partners – it’s been really stimulating. As you may have gathered, we believe that a physical survey is not necessary in most instances and that by lending our expertise remotely to customers (with online and phone support) we can...
Johnny’s PV goes in (at last).
on September 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
Having tried to timetable an installation on my own house for over a year the system went in at the end of last week. As with nearly every job there were some restrictions that had to be carefully thought through at the design stage. In common with a lot of our customers, I wanted to...