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"I am, after years of debating — and saving — finally having solar panels
fitted to the roof of my house, combined with a home battery pack. The soaring
costs of gas and electricity in the UK have finally tipped the balance to make
this financially justifiable — the ‘payback period’, after which the
electricity saved and produced pays back the cost of installing them, has gone
down from 10 years to 6. I’m hoping that in a year’s time, the performance of
my panels will be just as good as
The New Climate’s Frank Parker’s—which he
wrote about here.
But what of the environmental justification? This, as an environmental writer,
seems obvious: solar is clean, green, renewable energy. By installing it, I
will be generating a substantial part of my electricity from the sun alone.
Also by doing so, I am taking less electricity from the national grid, reducing
overall demand — and in peak months, when I can’t use all I produce, I will be
adding some renewable energy back to the grid (albeit at a very low rate for
me, and a very good rate for them. The feed-in-tariffs that used to guarantee a
payment for all electricity generated and exported for 20 years, were scrapped
in 2019. The FIT was as high as 54p/kWh for electricity generated in 2011; now
I can expect 4.1p/kWh, and only for power I export)."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
