Solar Panel Plans
How do I get a grant passed for my school for Solar Panels?
Our school is in the process of being built, but they have no plans to include any environmental benefits. I was wondering how to get a grant for solar panels (at least) or who I can talk to in order to get a grant.
If you are in the UK Look at the Low Carbon Buildings Programme by BERR link below
http://www.lowcarbonbuildings.org.uk/micro/
You can also email them for further advice on available grants and discounts offered by other providers.
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Edit: Excessively long payback schemes for solar panels are being quoted. It depends on where you live, where you situate your solar panels, what you buy and if you get a grant or install them yourself.
Much of the Cost Of Solar Panels is in the installation. Any competent DIY person can install a simple Solar Panel system. Ours cost less than £1000 to buy and self install.
What are you calling payback time? Because each time I don’t use fossil fuels and use Solar Energy instead, I don’t get a ‘fossil fuel’ bill. Whilst we still use some electricity for running a fridge, lighting etc we have no other fuel bills, no gas, no oil, no electric heating no electrically heated hot water. We have woodburning stoves (which run on free wood) and solar.
Remember you are not just paying for the electricity/gas/oil etc that you use, you are also paying standing charges, VAT etc. Include those in your ‘payback time figures’ and you will see a very different picture. How long would it take you to pay back £1,000 if you only had one tiny electric bill each quarter?