Re: Cash Rewards for Low Carbon Electricity and Heating
by Roger Vincent
at 2010-02-09 14:43:10
(News)
I have a 6Kw Proven in Devon (average site for wind) Taking actual figures for year 2008/2009 my total generation was 10098Kw of which I exported 6802Kw and imported 2240Kw. Generation made and used on site was 3205Kw. Npower paid me 10p per Kw exported and I sold 11ROC's by auction at £572. Npower charged me on average 16p inc distribution costs per unit. Do the maths and you will see that I will be £140 less well off using the new feed in tariff. Not much you may say but a great thanks for taking a huge finincial risk and doing my bit for green power.I agree that we should all get together and put our case using exact figures before it is too late. The answer is the paltry price that we will get for our export, a figure based on false information caused mainly by small generators who did not install an export meter initially. I am sure that my figures for export are fairly typical. Three fifths which is far more than the 50% that the government used.in their calculations. We can opt out and sell our export totals to whomever we choose. Perhaps it would be a great idea for us all to pool all of our exported generation units and sell them by auction like ROC's. I am sure E-roc would be interested to help. We all know that our electricity suppliers will jump at this golden oportunity to hike up their prices once again in the following months and causing an even more uneven playing field between us that took a gamble and the new generators that will be getting nearly three times as much. It is just not right. Roger Vincent




