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Post by brillbilly on Nov 3, 2011 6:26:06 GMT 10
The Government has been accused of killing off the solar energy industry, putting 25,000 jobs at risk, by slashing the benefits available to those signing up. "Thousands of enterprises will be bankrupt by Christmas," said Daniel Green, chief executive of solar firm HomeSun. Previously, the Government paid a feed in tariff to people prepared to install solar panels. This meant that homeowners were paid for any power they generated and did not use. But this benefit has been cut in half, as of December 12. Under the old system, people could earn £1,200 a year from their solar panels, on top of reducing their bills. This meant the outlay of several thousand pounds to install them could more easily be justified and that some companies were even offering to install panels free for a cut of the profits. It would now take up to 25 years to get a return on your investment. "Greg Barker [energy and climate change minister] has proposed devastating and immediate cuts to the solar PV [photo voltaic] industry which could lead to 25,000 job losses by Christmas; "This makes no sense at all, the Coalition are grappling for short-term headlines; they don't have a long term, coherent growth strategy." uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/Solar-power-cut-yahoofinanceuk-4143931106.html"Yet they want us to cut back on CO2?,......poxy tow the line EU kiss ass puppet hypocrit's
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2011 12:55:20 GMT 10
No fuck em.
They did this here, the tariff used to be a return of .60c per kilowatt hour, but they cut it back to .20c per hour cause it was costing a fuckin fortune to buy it back.
The cost was then added onto everybody elses bills, you know, all those poor people who didnt have $8000 in up front money to install the solar panels in the first place, it added around 10-15% a year to the average bills.
So the poor ended up subsidising rich peoples electricity.
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Post by brillbilly on Nov 5, 2011 22:52:19 GMT 10
No fuck em. They did this here, the tariff used to be a return of .60c per kilowatt hour, but they cut it back to .20c per hour cause it was costing a fuckin fortune to buy it back. The cost was then added onto everybody elses bills, you know, all those poor people who didnt have $8000 in up front money to install the solar panels in the first place, it added around 10-15% a year to the average bills. dirty fuckin trick man! So the poor ended up subsidising rich peoples electricity.
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