The STA (Solar Trade Association) have today produced a PR document and is urging us to use this locally to convince our potential customers that Solar PV is still good to go. Understandable really – the market is ‘flat’. No sign of a pulse. But they are right – FiT rates were at 43p back...
Desperate effort to show Solar PV is still very worthwhile…
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012UK Solar PV – an Olympic sized fiasco
Friday, March 23rd, 2012Somewhat inevitably, DECC lost their appeal to the Supreme Court today. Congratulations to all those who installed between Dec 12th and 3rd March – your 43.3p is now a reality! It was however a pyrrhic victory for the renewables industry – Secretary of State Barker knew that in pursuing this as far as he could...
FIT’s – The current position
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Chris 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
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012DECC 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
Monday, January 23rd, 2012Last 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...
Made it! Happy customers…
Monday, December 12th, 2011We’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...
Costa del Powys
Saturday, October 1st, 2011I’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
Friday, September 23rd, 2011I’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...
Utilizing SolarEdge to achieve maximum power
Friday, August 26th, 2011At this recent installation near Cambridge we were presented with two common problems: limited space and partial shading. The solution to the space limitation was twofold –...
Sanyo HITs and SMA WebBox
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011Today we completed a 1.92 kWp Sanyo HIT install in Trevone, North Cornwall. The roof was a little tricky at the design level – tight angular hipped roof where we needed to use the space as best we could. We went with an 8 panel design – using Sanyo HIT high-efficiency panels and a high-efficiency...