I'm sorry guys we really disagree on this.
the Green Deal incentive, when launched for solar, will be replacing the previous incentive, which, although still exists, was called the Feed-in-Tariff. which in turn replaced the previous incentive called ROCs.
the trouble you've got is when you join the party late, you don't know the whole story.
Draft one of the Green Deal was less of a loan and more of a grant system that would be available to all households across the country to be spent on renewable's and energy efficiency for each household.
the loan would be secured on the household and be repaid on change of ownership or as is with savings produced.
This was a tried and tested method in Birmingham and was used to Double Glaze a lot of properties by the City Council.
If that system would work, we could potentially fit renewables to every house in Britain in one generation, assuming every household changes hands every generation or less.
when this scheme was adapted for Solar, obviously the costs were much greater and so the funding was harder to achieve.
private companies were brought in to finance and as they are business then added 6-7% return on loans.
this is the system we are at now.
anyone with half a brain can see this is a rubbish system for the solar industry and so the August launch was put back until October until the funding is resolved, this still isn't resolved and is now delayed until we are told March.
The main complaint with the FiT was it only rewarded the wealthy and was only available to people who had disposable money in the bank, they in turn were rewarded by raising everyone elses fuel bill to pay for their FiTs.
(so in reducing FiT would not have changed anything)
Now my point is that if they do achieve their original goal of financing all domestic installations until change of ownership, so not costing the customer a penny, isn't your customer going to be really ****ed off with you.
don't pretend I don't know what I'm on about to justify your money grabbing
