Who said anything about a whole nation. The comments are specifically about the wind turbine scheme in NI which this thread is supposed to be about. It will probably end up a bigger scandal then the RHI scheme but hey what do I know.
I'm not sure you're diverting it, I'm struggling to understand what the "story" is to start with. Did NI keep the FIT high while the rest of the UK was dropping it over a period of years? That would seem odd and a bit neglectful when they could've been reducing the funding like everyone else.
You did,
As someone who has two forms of renewable energy on an owned self sustaining farm I would class myself as having a reasonable understanding of the workings of my local economy. I know nothing of this 'Brown Envelope' or any other colour of envelope economy you speak of, please enlighten me and my fellow country men on this forum as we would like to know. After the RHI fiasco, we as Businessmen/Farmers/Landowners are quite frankly fed up to the back teeth with self appointed experts casting dispersions on us.
Yes you're correct. The fit or Niro price was not reduced as the scheme filled. No corruption has been found or implied. Simple the fact that the rocs maintained its value to the end. My Scottish friend gets over 21p in fit payments per kw. We get 19.2p for 2020. I don't see a story only abit of greedy farmer bashing
Still, you have to wonder what tf the journalist thinks is a crime here? Maybe they'd rather the leccy was generated by say EDF and the money went over the channel rather than go to a farmer in NI who would then spend it in NI? All very baffling.
Precisely, How many brown envelopes do you think it took to arrive at a refurbished figure of 120k. To give you a clue the salvage person would normally have been paid to dismantle the old turbine as part of the installation of the new replacement turbine head.
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FTFY.
Define a scrap turbine.to me it's one which the running costs simply outweigh any financial returnI agree it was stormont that gave the tools to create a very profitable wind industry as outlined below
Cash for wind: How Arlene Foster hiked another green subsidy, and GB public will pay most of the £5 billion bill
A Stormont green energy scheme far more lucrative than RHI saw Arlene Foster approve more generous subsidies than in GB, but managed to get electricity customers in GB to pay for most of it – and the total bill could be £5 billion, it has been revealed.
But it was developers that exploited the loopholes with there scrap wind turbines turning them into the golden goose.
These turbines where just obsolete in that the site could upgrade from a 250kw to 1MW or 1.5MW. Most of them received EU subsidy as new turbines. Anywhere else in europe you could not get Fits on 2nd hand equipment but NI made up there own rules which allowed this as part of the "peace dividend". Why it was allowed by the EU I have no idea. Anyway the end result is a lot of people have made a lot of money out of 2nd hand wind turbines.
I buy secondhand Tractors for less money than my neighbours buy new ones, does this put me at an advantage over my neighbour? Should I not be allowed to use them for farming? Should I get less for my produce?
I think the whole point of the generous Green energy subsidies was to create a new industry. which would stand on its feet as there were gradually taken away. Using second hand equipment was never the idea.
If that's the case the small wind industry ie sub 250 would never of got off the ground. We didnt make the rules,we followed them. Planning,grid connection,ofgem all needed to be passed and paid. Grid alone could cost up to 250k
Your missing the point. The EU paid for the original new turbines and UK consumers have paid again for the same turbines which are now secondhand. Anywhere else in UK secondhand turbines have to stand on there own feet with only electric export sales to finance them and no subsidy from consumers. To compare with tractors is rediculous as I dont contribute to your tractor but every NI wind turbine receiving Fits is being subsidised by UK consumers.
Would any of these schemes wind or otherwise be viable without government support.The chinese must be laughing at us borrowing money to put up turbines while the burn coal