Dissertation Project on Microgeneration

[MAS]

Hi everyone,

I'm a student at the University of Manchester in my final year undertaking my dissertation project.

In layman's terms i'm investigating the which factor has more influence of micro generation adoption in the UK: financial factors, or an awareness of climate change and environmental degradation, and a desire to help the planet.

I need to get roughly 100 survey responses and around 30 interviews done - i'm around halfway there at the moment.

If anyone has any form of microgeneration in their home or business, be it P.V., geothermal energy, small scale wind turbines, and would be willing to complete my survey (which genuinely takes about 2 minutes) it'd be really really grateful!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W2RMVF6

If anyone is willing to go one step further and be interviewed over the phone, i'd be even more grateful! Interviews take around 10 minutes, and there's no massive rush for me, any point between roughly the 10th of January and now is fine, i appreciate everyone's busy on the last week before Christmas.
It's not just those who've already invested in microgeneration and i'd be interested in interviewing; if you're considering it or have done as some point in the past, i'd love to interview you as well.

Please reply here or send me a PM if you're interested, or if you know of anyone who might be interested.

Many thanks and Merry Christmas,
Milo

 

[e3120]

Hi everyone,

I'm a student at the University of Manchester in my final year undertaking my dissertation project.

In layman's terms i'm investigating the which factor has more influence of micro generation adoption in the UK: financial factors, or an awareness of climate change and environmental degradation, and a desire to help the planet.

I need to get roughly 100 survey responses and around 30 interviews done - i'm around halfway there at the moment.

If anyone has any form of microgeneration in their home or business, be it P.V., geothermal energy, small scale wind turbines, and would be willing to complete my survey (which genuinely takes about 2 minutes) it'd be really really grateful!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/W2RMVF6

If anyone is willing to go one step further and be interviewed over the phone, i'd be even more grateful! Interviews take around 10 minutes, and there's no massive rush for me, any point between roughly the 10th of January and now is fine, i appreciate everyone's busy on the last week before Christmas.
It's not just those who've already invested in microgeneration and i'd be interested in interviewing; if you're considering it or have done as some point in the past, i'd love to interview you as well.

Please reply here or send me a PM if you're interested, or if you know of anyone who might be interested.

Many thanks and Merry Christmas,
Milo

Done, and I must say, one of the better-constructed surveys I've read on here.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

You could have had a text box at the end for respondents to describe their own projects in broad terms, type, output, age, cost etc..

 

[MAS]

Done, and I must say, one of the better-constructed surveys I've read on here.

Thank you!

 

[MAS]

You could have had a text box at the end for respondents to describe their own projects in broad terms, type, output, age, cost etc..

I agree, it would've been nice to have another section to allow for some explanation of the type of project people had installed, but that would be over my 10 question limit for the free SurveyMonkey software, otherwise the basic plan is £35/month, which unfortunately the student budget doesn't stretch for!
Thank you for the suggestion though, I do make a point to ask people during the interviews what their systems consist of.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Ah right. Quite understandable.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Following my interview with Milo and the comments he made about FITs, I looked for some info and found this on the ofgen website;
On 18 December 2018 the following changes were introduced to the FIT scheme:

• Closure of the scheme to new applications from 1 April 2019, barring exceptions for a grid or radar delay grace periods and MCS installations which commissioned before this date.
• Introduction of metered export to the levelisation calculation.

I guess those involved already know this. I was in talks to renew my hydro in order to qualify for FITs but now there is no reason to continue. Ho hum!

 

[Still Farming]

All done.
As asked in survey , if lower installation costs and more Government backing then the future could be good for small scale renewables ,otherwise stagnant or decay predicted.
Self sufficiency and small scale was and should be incouraged.