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I am now officially saving the Polar Bears---and next doors cat just for good measure.
Hopefully small electric bills from now on and a bit of money back for what we put into the grid:)

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Just in time too. Doesn't the tariff reduce 1st week of March?

I was thinking about panels but we'll probably move again in next few years. Did you have to have the roof reinforced or was it OK? Free leccy and payment from the Gov, can't be bad!

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I've got the higher tariff and never had to make any structural alterations to the house so all good for me even if it was getting in at the last knockings.

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better in than out DT ;)

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another unsightly installation of a product that will not save the planet,

sorry, tar and same brush and all that but these quick fix green measures are getting intolerable

devils advocate / PITA mode off

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What makes you say that?
How much damage / CO is produced in the manufacture of panelles?

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+1

I am just waiting for the outcry when, in the nearish future, the promised rewards/savings of these things fail to materialise in a way covered by the get-out clause in the small print.

Instead of discriminatory schemes like this (I dont have a roof to hang panels off if I wanted to), they should just be building more Nuclear Power Stations in a new Government Energy Company, which would allow them, through competition, to control the energy prices.

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Or research into nuclear fusion?

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We need the power now, not in "pick a number from the air" years/decades time.

In fact we need it about 10 years ago, which if the Fission plants had been built under a Government Scheme with them getting profits/control, would mean electricity would be so much cheaper than it is now.

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A lot of if's and but's -----in today's world how else can I reduce my electric bill,not some proposition that might happen if planners get their fingers out.Then we get the protests about it being built on somebody's doorstep.My panels can never cause the chaos like Long Island,Japan or Chernobyl. Not withstanding what you do with the spent fuel rods and the time to decommission a site.

Even if they start building nuclear power stations now by the time they are completed and on grid the price of electricity will have gone up by so much that the reduction will not even bring it back to today's price. I have taken action now that benefits me and is guaranteed for the next ten years---and I am a muppet?