General Discussion
Who is doing the subsidising if everyone is meant to have it? You can't subsidise yourself. If the technology represented value for money then everyone would adopt it. It doesn't so they continue getting their energy cheaper from the energy companies. And millions of workers own those shares in their pension funds.
Solar PV isn't cheap, solar thermal should be installed first following engery efficiencies to the home iike drausght exclusion and insulation, more affordable steps to conserve energy usage. Heavily subsidized solar panels aren't going to happen in this country, there's too much money to be made by the big 6 who pull the strings of the government and likely have ministers as shareholders or ...
The big energy companies aren't stopping anyone from putting solar panels on rooftops or carparks as far as I am aware.
@Steve I agree, solar panels on all S facing rooftops whether residents homes or public buildings would be best from our point of view, but not best from the big 6 energy firms' shareholder's dividends perspective, which is why they don't care about using productive farmland or population density. The establishment wouldn't want ordinary people to generate their own energy, they need us to be ...
@burneside , the law of unintended consequences comes to mind. Ed Miliband may have good intentions, or he may just be following Al Gore’s playbook which made him a lot of money; either way it is a terrible idea. The best place to put solar panels is on rooftops and in car parks. Using farmland is ridiculous given the UK is not self-sufficient in food and how dense the population is.
@Teignpot So you are saying Leeds and London can burn because the government is incapable of doing two things at once.
Lottery won't be back up until Monday according to the shop assistant.
And now we have that buffoon Ed Miliband forging ahead with his idiotic plan to cover large swathes of agricultural land with solar panels, all in the name of "climate change". We might get a bit of electricity but we will be losing an awful lot of food production.
The riots have been widely reported @Teignpot . I wish Labour would fix the disasters of the last 14 years (really 25 years) but they won't and will just add to them.
Ignoring the misinformation (lies) re Leeds and London, the truth is that Parliament is more concerned about fixing the 14 years of mess left behind by the Tory charlatans and thieves.