Green Clean Renewable Energy
Heard the one about the feed in tariff where the government are joining energy companies to offer payment for energy you generate from your own home using renewable sources?
Solar PV Panels
In sun blessed South Devon it is likely to be taken up by many home owners. Companies like Exeter based Sungift Solar Installers Devon are reporting a huge amount of interest and enquiries from householders from all over the region keen to generate and earn from fitting their own solar PV in Devon
Here’s a few observations that will hopefully help you to make a decision about whether this is feasible for you:
Solar power or Eolic power will never work as an add on to the national grid. You need a clean installation with adequate power input and accumulation combined with education in the use of your power capabilities. No lights left on. No utensils that use resistance: ie water heaters inc Washing machine hot wash. No extras that you don’t really need.
A good system with 6 top end pv panels, 1500 amps of wet accumulator storage, and a bit of education in saving power will run a normal 3 bed house including tellys and a halogen hob and oven. It’s all about learning.
Wind Vanes
Wind vanes are great as an overnight backup but you don’t need a huge two-blade machine. A small 5 amp 3-blade mill will boost your system enough to compensate for short winter days.
by Roger Handy
01 Jun 2010 at 13:07
Whey Aye man – you can keep yer poooofy solar pv panels in Devon – Up North we’re so hard we divvna need the ‘leccy you soft shandy drinking southerners.
On a manchester away day we wer so hot we had to strip down to our grundies
by Paul Day
12 Feb 2011 at 20:25
Has anyone, not a company with alterior motives, actually installed the solar PV panels, I am interested but would like to hear from someone who has installed them with their own money. Are the returns as good as being claimed by those trying to sell them to us? Some figures I have been quoted look astronomical, until you realise they are factoring inflation into the feed in tariff returns and your future elctricty bill then the numbers are are too hard to relate to todays value. (i.e. one company showed me figures of a system costing £13,000 to install, which over 25 years would, by a combination of savings and income from the FiT, give me a return of £110,000, the two figures do not equate as £13,000 is in todays value, and £110,000 is in 25 years value with massive assumptions made). What are the real figures people are experiencing. Paul from West Bridgford
by Blaby Architecture
13 Oct 2011 at 10:40
To help those considering installing a PV system, we have just installed a 3.8kw in the east midlands on a roof facing directly south. Our first feed in tariff payment was £430.56 for a quarter – not bad as the installation was finished within the quarter so the payment was 3 weeks shy of a full quarter. My electricity bill has also reduced nearly in half and I get small credits to my bill off the back of the energy sold back to the grid on top of my tariff payment. Jenn from Blaby
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