Daniel
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- Mildenhall, Suffolk
You should be getting 4k per acre or more which is what we give our landlords.
Your website says you pay up to £1400 an acre?
You should be getting 4k per acre or more which is what we give our landlords.
Yep that's a minimum but you can get a lot moreYour website says you pay up to £1400 an acre?
think someone is mixing hectares, acres and the dateYou should be getting 4k per acre or more which is what we give our landlords.
That's when the developer takes all the development profit - the problem is that landlords aren't getting access to the full picture and I do mean 4k per acre not HCTS. The developer fee could be as much as 10% of the capex. Farmers need to be aware that they should first of all understand there are two key components - planning and grid connection. It doesn't cost anything to put in a DNO request for grid connection, when the offer is made if a deposit is paid this can be recovered if the planning doesn't go through. The risk is on the landlord in my view because they are handing over a fortune to funders unnecessarily.Your website says you pay up to £1400 an acre?
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Note that you have not responded to comments on the other thread re rents
Perhaps you would condescend to explain in financial terms how you can justify paying £4,000 per acre rent
Dear Lee.I would think its along the lines of the fact that each acre can earn over £100k/year from elec sold and fit/roc?
Dear Lee.
Rent 1,000 acre.
Rates 750 acre.
Dep. 6,400 acre ( 160 K acre over 25 years. )
Grid 400
Total 8,550 acre.
Maintenance planning clear up costs on top.
Now if lee is correct we should be building them our selfs for sure.
Well what I said was more of a question than a definitive answer but that was the figure I was told by an agent dealing with a big 50+ acre system.
As for building it yourself then I'm led to believe a 70ac development would cost £10 million? Borrowing that kind of cash isn't easy.
Lee
Perhaps the agent does not know what he was talking about
is that anything new ?
The inverters is obviously the big question
We have seen comments on here of inverters being replaced very regularly
but I have got 12 and so far touch wood no issues.
But my oldest is 3 years.
The other issue is cleaning, I think most people agree cleaning is essential, but quotes up to a £1 a panel are off-putting to say the least. That would be .4% alone but of course, I believe, ground mounts in a large field should come a lot less than that
I hope to keep my maintenance bill below yours but I am unsure how big yours is
LeeWe are not spending 2k per year and so far after 4 years nearly total spend has been £430/year which includes the insurance, cleaning and normal maintenance.
I would guess that a lot depends on area of country, local dust, rainfall etcOur 50kw ground mount seems fairly self cleaning?
Lee
If yours is 50KWp then it would match my figures very closely
Lee
an acre of PV will cost anything from £200 -£240,000
including planning, legal fees, DNO upgrades etc
This depends on the amount of panels anything from 175 -200 KWp install (5-6 acres per megawatt)
Assume 175 KWp cost £200K
This will produce Approximately 170,000 units per year ( on a very good site)
Value approximately 4.7 p per unit = £7,990
This will also attract ROCs at the rate of 1.6 Rocs per Megawatt = 1.6 X 170 =282.2 Rocs
Each Roc worth approximately £42.20 = £11,908.84
gross output £19,898.84 which is a little short of £100,000 per acre
For small installs using Fits out put is marginally more
Then you have charges
Insurance
£4.00 / Kw installed = £700
Rates = £672
cleaning ?
maintenance ?
Replacement ?
etc
Amortisation of the outlay on this would be about 8% before rent
still sure you want to pay £4,000
There were certainly sites in the early days where these rents and more were paid
But then the subsidies were in the order of 30p / KWH