I would like to hear from people who have 'actual personal experience' of installing/having solar panels contributing to their own electricity running costs in their homes or businesses.
I thank you in advance.
Rolluplostinspace wrote:I might be wrong but I think the government may have interfered recently making it less attractive but .... I know a guy who said yes to a salesman so the salesman fitted his roof out with panels.
This will be five six years ago.
There's a little shed also had to be built where the electricity meters are.
If I remember rightly the company who own the panels get a check off the power company for between three and six hundred pounds a quarter and the guy I know pays around five quid a month for his electricity now on a three bed house.
It was a very brief discussion I had about a year ago so my figures might be wrong.
Main thing is he's very happy he said yes.
Major Starbold wrote:Rolluplostinspace wrote:I might be wrong but I think the government may have interfered recently making it less attractive but .... I know a guy who said yes to a salesman so the salesman fitted his roof out with panels.
This will be five six years ago.
There's a little shed also had to be built where the electricity meters are.
If I remember rightly the company who own the panels get a check off the power company for between three and six hundred pounds a quarter and the guy I know pays around five quid a month for his electricity now on a three bed house.
It was a very brief discussion I had about a year ago so my figures might be wrong.
Main thing is he's very happy he said yes.
Thanks for that.
Maybe a foruma has had theirs done.
Trapper John wrote:I can tell you what I know about solar panels fitted to council properties by councils who sort to profit from this scheme - none of the panels are connected, they provide no hot water or electricity and certainly no benefit to the tenant of the property - in effect they are there for purely cosmetic reasons - they do not work.
I know this because a few years back I was working on one of these houses for a tenant using his own money to upgrade his property. The council's clerk of works visited and I had to ask him about all the contraptions, pipes and electricity cables strewn through the loft and property and he said I needn't worry too much, just keep them tied up tidy.
None of the systems are connected he said, and doubted they ever would be, he said that 800 or so of their properties had taken the roof panels and none of the systems work because they aren't connected, he said he doubted they were ever intended to be in the first place.
Stooo wrote:Trapper John wrote:I can tell you what I know about solar panels fitted to council properties by councils who sort to profit from this scheme - none of the panels are connected, they provide no hot water or electricity and certainly no benefit to the tenant of the property - in effect they are there for purely cosmetic reasons - they do not work.
I know this because a few years back I was working on one of these houses for a tenant using his own money to upgrade his property. The council's clerk of works visited and I had to ask him about all the contraptions, pipes and electricity cables strewn through the loft and property and he said I needn't worry too much, just keep them tied up tidy.
None of the systems are connected he said, and doubted they ever would be, he said that 800 or so of their properties had taken the roof panels and none of the systems work because they aren't connected, he said he doubted they were ever intended to be in the first place.
A few of my mates went over to solar panels after the digital TV stuff went to shit. It works and is connected to the National Grid who pay you for your contribution. A few companies rely on a lease which will marginally benefit you but vastly benefit them.
Decent battery storage will transform the energy market.
Seriously TJ
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