Tories Protecting Investors: Domestic Solar Grid Connections Can Take 15 years Say MP’s

 

The Government's ambition to install 70GW of solar by 2035 may not happen due to a lack of grid connectivity causing long delays for businesses, according to the Commons Environmental Audit Committee. 

A cross party group of MP’s found that In some cases, customers are having to wait up to 15 years to secure a connection for solar installations due to three key issues: 

1:     a lack of physical infrastructure, 

2:     poor availability of data on solar photovoltaic generation 

3:     and a “queueing system” of applications where developers apply for grid connections without planning permission. 

In Northumberland, the Conservative led County Council have covered over the car park of their totally expensive to run monolithic County Hall in the town they have covered in aspic in order to save £250,000 per year. A great saving in anyone's book.

But unlike those domestic residents who have invested their savings on a solar array on their home and have to wait 15 years for a connection to help pay off their outlay, the Council is fully equipped with a grid collection from day one. 

This lets keep Conservative farmer/councillors cars dry when they bother to turn up for meetings project, is awaiting beautification to ensure its worthy of sitting next to the wondrously expensive to modernise very empty building of County Hall itself and we are led to believe that they have also purchased a powered rickshaw to ferry those same gentlemen from car to office in order to keep their kashmir collared expensive wool suits spotless as Morpeth sits above 55༠ North and rain is a regular and ongoing occurrence.

The  Commons Environmental Audit Committee recommended that the Government consider affordable loans for households and a VAT discount for household battery storage. It is launching another inquiry into the lack of connectivity in the UK and potential barriers to low-carbon technologies. Of course it would be best to start that investigation by interviewing their Council Colleagues from Northumberland who seem to know how it's done.

We hope members of the public sitting on this waiting list also get in touch with their County Council to get equal help to ensure they also get a grid connection.

We would also bring your attention to the empty car park as workers are still working from home worrying about being seen on the premises as it appears to be the catalyst for redundancy. But with the Council's new team engaged in recent months that are employed on a flexi basis and can work from towns hundreds of miles away, the staff shouldn’t be afraid as they may never get to know who their new boss is?

So the other question has to be why save £250,000 on electricity simply to leave a light on to let the burglars see where they are.