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Originally Posted by The Mekon
Peter, Like you I am also a self funded retiree - receiving nothing from the Government. This has no bearing on the argument.
Allan L may have given me something to think about and perhaps moderate my views, but to me there is still no doubt that government subsidies to install and then generous credits (in past times stupidly so) can be used by the wealthy to reduce their electricity bills, whereas less well off people cannot afford to take advantage of such schemes.
Now if those with solar panels were to guarantee a certain feed into the grid 24hours per day, then I may look upon your case more favorably. But this would mean paying for batteries.
Why should you be credited anything for feed at times when wind power can drive the cost to zero?
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I installed solar at the time government was virtually begging people to do so by incentivising heavily. Somewhat later I also built a wind turbine to run in parallel but it proved to be unproductive on any useful scale.
I’ve done both wind and solar. I can’t make government policy but I reckon I’d be a bit of a dill if I didn’t install solar. At the time, it was the green thing to do and subsequently, attempts to demonise solar have failed utterly because they were based on wholly specious logic and relied on envy to appeal where the facts didn’t suit.