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\"954838_204501379701698_1765426126_n\"<\/a>Obama announces 1GWp of low cost PV on low income housing roofs. One of the big problems with solar PV is the up front cost. Whilst PV costs have fallen\u00a0dramatically over the last -well since they were invented- the up front cost is still in the thousands of dollar\/pounds\/euros or whatever.\u00a0 PV is almost competitive with wholesale electricity from conventional plant but it will always need to be paid for up front.\u00a0 This is going to defeat many of those who would benefit from it and leads people to think its a rich persons toy.\u00a0 Obama is expanding his low cost solar scheme and training tens of thousands of installers by executive order.\u00a0 The same thing has happened here.\u00a0 Councils in Wrexham and Birmingham have put solar systems on thousands of council houses before the FIT was cut and I have read about others going forward despite the cut to it.<\/p>\n

The low cost PV plan (Clean Energy Savings For All Initiative) is a 10 fold increase on the previous plan which perhaps in part reflects the big drop in PV prices.\u00a0 There will be those who complain about it such as Trump, but it seems an admirable plan to me.\u00a0 Why shouldn\u2019t everyone benefit from the solar revolution?<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Obama announces 1GWp of low cost PV on low income housing roofs. One of the big problems with solar PV is the up front cost. 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