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   Commander Kinsey to trader4@optonline.net   
   Re: Very few solar panels on new houses   
   06 Jun 19 23:33:55   
   
   XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.sci.physics   
   From: CFKinsey@military.org.jp   
      
   On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 23:08:06 +0100, trader_4  wrote:   
      
   > On Thursday, June 6, 2019 at 5:53:05 PM UTC-4, Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >> On Thu, 06 Jun 2019 22:48:40 +0100, Andy Burns  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> > Commander Kinsey wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >> Andy Burns wrote:   
   >> >>   
   >> >>> Very little incentive to have any at all now that the feed-in/bribery   
   >> >>> tariff has ended.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> That's what I would have thought, but these houses are only a couple of   
   >> >> years old.   
   >> >   
   >> > FIT ended (for new installs) 31st March 2019.   
   >>   
   >> I wasn't aware it was a different date for new installs.  I tried to get   
   some on my existing house 5 years ago and just missed it.   
   >>   
   >> However, if the bribery had ended, why did they install any at all?  Is   
   there some silly regulation saying they have to have a small number?   
   >>   
   >> And these houses would have been completed before 31st March 2019.   
   >   
   > You don't even say where this is.  The rebates, tax incentives, payments   
   > for electric you generate, vary widely, state by state.   
      
   Sorry I thought you knew I lived in the UK.   
      
   > I agree though that a small number doesn't make sense, assuming it's not   
   > enough to cover the energy usage of the house.   
      
   Irrelevant, you can always make more and it just goes into the grid.   
      
   > Which again gets to where   
   > it's located.  If it's FL and they need heavy AC it's going to be higher   
   > energy needed than someplace more moderate.   
      
   Irrelevant, you can always make more and it just goes into the grid.   
      
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