Consumers will benefit
JIM Allan is incorrect when he says that ordinary consumers will underwrite the cost of buying back electricity from houses with solar panels (Mail, February 24), because the ombudsman for energy supplies would disallow it and no sane government would even contemplate it.
Use of solar energy is largely about pricing and to encourage investment in solar systems the Government needs to introduce feed-in tariffs and to buy back the energy at rates above the market price.
Eventually it is expected that, with an expanding market, prices will tumble.
Because the energy is renewable this is to the benefit of the consumer and because the supply is carbon free also of benefit to the environment.
Jim worries about the cost of installation of solar panels, quoting 10,000, but it is possible by shopping around to get an installation for 4,000, which is peanuts compared with the price of a house.
Solar power, like wind power, has come to stay and will proliferate despite sceptic opinion.
And does Jim know that 75 per cent of the power supply for Bristol Docks is from three wind turbines?
Lawrence Rushmer,
Park Road,
Hartlepool.
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