Micro generation systems for your home
Incentives for domestic micro generation systems are now realistic enough to provide a realistic return on micro generation investments. With the reality of Britain's energy crisis looming, the 'people in the know' and investors are preparing for the worst.
Apart from relief of not being hit by the looming longer term energy shortfall, with grant aid incentive, the biggest pay backs are added value to your property. With property valued on average 10% more with these micro generation systems, you can see the obvious benefit, apart from lower or no electricity bills.
Solar panels
A single 2kW solar panel system seems insignificant compared to a 1000 megawatt nuclear power station, but According to a Energy Saving Trust (EST) report says home micro generators of varying types including Photovoltaic's, Wind and Water Turbines will provide the UK with 30 - 40 % of it's electricity needs by individual homes contributing to the National Grid. Our Nuclear Power Stations at the moment only contribute 20%. A large energy blackhole is emerging, and micro generation is the only reliable way to plug it, realistically.
Generating your own power and selling (exporting) your surplus will relieve the National Grid as well as contributing to it
If you doubt the power of small scale investment, think computer power. Thirty years ago computers were mainframes and home use was non existant. Today there is vastly more computing power in peoples homes than in large scale installations. Micro generation systems are starting to take off, and government help could turn the trickle into a torrent. Building generators in their hundreds is costly, just as home computers were in 1980. Building them in hundreds of thousands is cheap.
A rooftop wind or solar generator will pay for itself within 7-9 years(depending on your own energy consumption rate). With energy pricing soaring through the roof (excuse the pun), this type of investment is becoming more and more attractive to domestic users.
In the UK, the government introduced subsidies (grants). The German model, which it to pay micro generation systems over the odds for every kW (kilowatt-hour) they produce. Ths is far more promising. The key is simplicity. The Technology must be simpler with little or no paper work. Distributed computing is now used every day for applications like the SETI programme and other things, and is seen as the way forward. Distributed power generation will not be far behind.
Britain has the opportunity to lead the world with micro generation, while undoubtely helping to combat the global warming and climate change problems.
With the relief of not being hit by the looming energy crisis, with grant aid incentive, the biggest pay backs are added value to your property, domestic micro generation is smart move for smart investors.
A building programme of renewable energy sources, including micro generation systems, is the only way the UK will solve its energy crisis. People 'in the know' are already preparing, their homes and families for the biggest shake up in energy use and conservation since world war II.
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Financial Times on 5 Jan 2004
