Quoting before Results of the Consultation

[Somecamel]

Kinda missed my point- I'm saying we are being screwed from all directions

 

[finchy]

I'm completely lost in what we should do ! I heard the other day the government what the Energy companies to raise the Generation rate from 3p. How can we sell solar, I have a conscious we really cannot sell until we know the facts. How can we explain this to our customers and gain their confidence in us when we don't have any confidence in the Government.

When are wholesalers going to drop their prices >? surely they will wait until the government has made its mind up. So what do we do in the mean time......go on strike !

 

[SRE]

I got about 3/4 of the way through the consultation yesterday before i fell asleep. One thing that did occur to me was the given the government is supposed to be reducing the bureaucracy for small businesses could we make the 21p work if we didn't have to spend so much time pen pushing???

If there wasn't a week of work behind every install then I think I'd be able to make enough money because I wouldn't need to build in as much admin time and I could potentialy get round more customers.

Personally, I'm not prepared to sell until I know exactly what I've got to sell, but it will be another point in my third long letter to my MP this weekend.

 

[Noddy67]

there are two points to this.

Firstly, in principle is it right for the govt. to do what it's done and leave us in (and endless) limbo (no, of course not).

But on a practical note I can't see anyone asking me for a quote from now till January at the very least.

And if they did ask I'd be tempted to put them off for a while: after a pretty busy 9 months and stupidly busy five weeks i'm ready to put my feet up... as i do an ocean of paperwork. If I could do the paperwork for each job in two hours (some chance with my organisation) it will take me almost two weeks to catch up with that.

 

[SolarCity]

I would say that most phone calls from customers are now going to end up in wasted surveys.

Most people that will be look at solar PV after the deadline will probably be unaware of the problems - they will have just seen a lot of installations being carried out recently. When they see the figures and then become aware of the cuts, they'll decide against it. I will be interested to hear other installers experiences in the Sun Lounge during that period.