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EDF have just told me that pending any further announcement they will be paying 21p for all installations after 12 Dec, pending the Supreme Court decision. If that goes against the government they will backdate payments to the installation date.
Posted by Sue Murray, 31 Jan 2012
This may be of interest to you. Good to see there is honesty and integrity in this part of the media. I wonder if the redtops, the Daily Wail and Excess will follow suit?
UK green media agrees blackout on rogue solar PV companies - 31 Jan 2012 - News from BusinessGreen
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I appreciate that this a difficult and uncertain time for all solar PV installers. Nonetheless, it is essential at this time that you only sell solar PV on the basis that, for an installation that takes place between 12 December 2011 and 2 March 2012, a consumer will get 43.3p/kWh for generation that takes place before 31 March 2012 and 21p for generation that takes place thereafter. It might be that a consumer who installs between these dates will end up getting 43.3p/kWh for the whole 25 years but this is far from certain at the moment and this expectation must not be the basis for any sale.
Please be aware that informing consumers they will definitely receive 43.3p for 25 years is mis-selling and it is a breach of the REAL Consumer Code. You must not agree a contract with a consumer on this basis. Please note that it is not acceptable to have a small print notice qualifying a misleading or incorrect claim. Should one of your consumers rely on receiving 43.3p/kWh for 25 years, but in the end does not, your company could end up refunding them the difference.
I have received a number of examples of misleading advertising. The Non-Compliance Panel has asked to receive a report at the end of March of any company putting out misleading advertising or otherwise seeking to exploit this time of uncertainty by pressurising consumers into signing contracts. I am currently compiling this report and will pass it to the Panel with details of the companies concerned.
Most of these companies will be closing down after the 3rd cause the EPC stuff will frighten them off. Absolute joke.
The way I see it is it's 21p but customers who have installations before 3/3 have a Chance of 43p, that's what I will say but obviously say the contract is 21p, and they should only sign based on the 21p. !
So does it still stand that properties will have to be C rated to get the FIT's from April? and if so is their any chance this will change?
What a Joke! Who's going to risk that!
If the C rating proposal gets binned either entirely or in favour of the green deal options, or a watered down version, I'd hope a few who've been laying in to BPVA of late will have cause for a bit of a rethink as this measure has been BPVA's major campaigning focus since the consultation started. Rightly IMO.
I still find BPVA's support of DECC confusing at best, even with their statements. They seem to be saying that they don't support the governments illegal action yet they then attempt to intervene on the DECC's behalf in court case dealing with exactly that.
So, it is quite easy for BPVA to support DECC in the introduction of a FIT of 21p but not support DECC in its plan to introduce it from the 12/12.
Then surely their intent to intervene in the court process was utterly unjustified?
I don't know what BPVA's actual intervention was - I don't trust either Barker or Huhne to report it accurately though.
DECC to consult on automatic feed-in tariff cuts - 01 Feb 2012 - News from BusinessGreen looks like the announcement will be as close to the 9th as they can get it and may include automatic cut off points. I'm not sure how that will work. 4 months of boom followed by 2 months of bust in 6 month cycles???? Or 4 months work and 2 months off every 6 months ......
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