Well, that's just great. My attempts to get solar panels fitted to our house before the government's stupid deadline (Dec 12th) have failed. The fitters have been swamped with jobs from people just like me and they've not been able to keep up with the work. Typical.
To their credit, the fitters have been very fair. They've offered to let me have the deposit back, or 30% off the price of the installation if I go ahead.
After a bit of thought and going over the figures, I decided it was still worth getting the panels installed. Hopefully, I'll finally get a date from the fitters this coming week.
Ironically, the government's savage cutting of the feed-in tariff has had one positive effect: In amongst the chaos it's caused in the solar industry, the grief it's caused to all those people, local councils, and charity organisations that were in the process of getting panels and had to cancel, plus the inevitable large-scale job losses, the solar panel manufacturers seem to have responded by cutting the price of their products to keep the market alive. Before the cut, you could expect to pay about £5000 per kWh. Now it seems to be about £3500.
Whether this will be enough to keep the industry from collapsing back to it's former niche market status remains to be seen.
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