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First, the oil industry world-wide receives a much larger subsidy than alternative/non-renewable energy sources.

Second, I don’t have a problem with subsidies. As a homeowner, I’d like to both contribute to GHG reductions, and save money on energy. But I simply can’t afford the startup cost of a reasonably-sized solar heating/PV system without help. If my government were to help me achieve my desire to lower GHG emissions and help prevent devastative climate change, I’d consider my tax dollars well spent.

I don’t reckon that anybody who actively entered into or enters the business either as being an investor, customer, company owner or installer considered that the original subsidies were sustainable or indeed beneficial for the industry in the long term but without them the industry would not be where it is today!

However, many individuals built their UK business models around subsidy guidelines in the form of the feed in tariff system that has been changed radically by government and caused many businesses to go bankrupt and made unemployed many of the workers that were drawn into the industry. This is all fact! After reviewing the electricity industry all together, the Economy and how best to integrate Renewable types of generation into the domain for the greater good of all i created the structure for a system which will result in “Grid Cost Parity” for renewables which will not need a subsidy system to work.

Briefly, The conceptual background for this patent application draws on the benefits associated with the practice of sharecropping by communities on a collective basis embedded within a competitive marketplace by directly attaching the rights and distribution to the output of the crop (In this case Alternative energy Electricity, farmed on a large scale basis) directly back to the owning individuals within defined limits for his / her own personal useage and therefore outside the monetary and taxation system. This financial approach being in line with the Governments current policy pertaining to the benefits obtainable within the current feed in tarrif system for domestic installations.

If you are truly an enthusiast of finding and supporting a way to make the world a greater place then take a look at my website http://www.solar-panel-installs.com and follow the tab towards Patent Application containing all the info of the design that is now at the publication stage with the Intellectual Property Office in the UK.Please be aware that this application is just for the UK and the design can be used as the basis for any project outside of the UK on an open source basis.

Full details of this application and other articles which i have written on the subject, including “Why and How the Government and the Energy Companies Sacrificed thousands of Jobs in the Solar PV Industry” are also open for discussion on my Solar blog page.

I truly believe the way forward is to keep installing but the Green deal is just another load of Green Spin Policy.

Anyway.. our 2.76kWp array generated roughly 2650kWh over the year (20% over projections), despite it being the worst year on record, rain-wise. That’s against about 3100kWh total domestic use.

Although at the time we installed them we needed feed-in-tariffs to justify them, it’s interesting to note that now, in good UK spots, a solar roof is just about financially viable without subsidies (return = 4-6% depending on exact costs and usage).

So Solar is basically viable across most of the western world.

You see the same thing with solar. I think there are a lot of challenges ahead when it comes to solar energy, but Greg’s thought experiment is worthwhile: what IF we had invested in solar long ago? Where would we be today?