What a great idea
Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:10 am
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Pity they had to use a Canadian couple as an example, though. There are several UK off-gridders around, a good start would have been the Lammas community, that the BBC has already covered some years ago: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articl ... r-10-years or if they wanted a YouTube channel then they could have picked Kris Harbour: https://www.krisharbour.co.uk/ and https://www.youtube.com/c/KrisHarbour
Some friends of ours live in Spain (more accurately Catalonia) and they have said the same. The taxation on solar panels there makes it prohibitively expensive to fit them. Seems that the Spanish power companies have a strong hold over the government and are determined not to allow anything that may impact their profits. Not that dissimilar to here, really.openspaceman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 6:16 pm I have just been speaking to a mate who lost his job in engineering design in UK and has moved to his grandparent's old home in North Spain. They only have electric heating or LPG.
As the PVGIS data for the site looked 8 times better than my house in January and December, and given I am veryhappy with my PV+battery, I suggested a modest investment in PV. He won't do it because he says it is taxed so heavilly there.
It seems a bit counter productive.
Think of all that VAT on the lack of leccy import they are losing.openspaceman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 20, 2022 8:07 pm Government is always looking for something conspicuous to tax, once it was windows perhaps PV panels next