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Rent-a-roof PV installations.

Sparkingchip
A few days before Christmas I went to do some work at a house, I was under the stairs at the consumer unit and the customer was stood back in the hallway several metres away by the open front door, in the manner that things are now done.


I said “ I see you have solar panels”.


The customer replied “Yes, but the ###### things don’t work and the firm that owns them won’t repair them”.


I said “I presume they are on a Rent-a-roof scheme”.


“You’ve got it” replied the customer.


I was then working in the loft where the inverter is, but could not see an obvious quick fix, so just did what I was supposed to be doing up there and left the PV system well alone.


I wonder how many Rent-a-roof PV installations are not actually working anymore?


Andy Betteridge.

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    Sparkingchip:

    An internet search throws up hits such as this:

    Most Utility Companies will assume a 50% export and do not measure the actual amount fed back into the grid.
    http://www.energygrants.co.uk/solar_power/solar-pv-feed-in-tariff-calculator.html


    Which seems a lot more practical than relying on people in their eighties and nineties to submit regular meter readings.

     


    Yes they assume 50% export - but that's 50% of the total generation - so you still need a PV meter and it needs to be read & readings submitted. The policy just saves the need for a 3rd meter (or for the supplier's meter to register exports separately).


       - Andy.


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    Sparkingchip:

    An internet search throws up hits such as this:

    Most Utility Companies will assume a 50% export and do not measure the actual amount fed back into the grid.
    http://www.energygrants.co.uk/solar_power/solar-pv-feed-in-tariff-calculator.html


    Which seems a lot more practical than relying on people in their eighties and nineties to submit regular meter readings.

     


    Yes they assume 50% export - but that's 50% of the total generation - so you still need a PV meter and it needs to be read & readings submitted. The policy just saves the need for a 3rd meter (or for the supplier's meter to register exports separately).


       - Andy.


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