RE: Condensing boilers & microbore pipe

["Neil Ball" <neilball@xxxxxxx>]

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From: mailinglists@xxxxxxx [mailto:mailinglists@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2003 00:29
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Condensing boilers & microbore pipe


Not wanting to start a flame war (as this stuff does genuinely interest
me!), when did this change? As the bit on Working Lunch was on TV about two
weeks ago, live outside broadcast, with a bloke from PowerGen asking for
more people (in certain  areas) to sign up for a wider scale trial. I was
interested as I'm thinking about getting a new boiler (and PG were
subsidising them), but sadly wasn't in the right area...

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Rafferty [mailto:simonr@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 29 November 2003 22:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Condensing boilers & microbore pipe


Well unfortunately with the new tarriffs and pricing structures it is
almost
impossible now. Like I said we have 1 MW CHP that cannot sell back into the
grid. It is causing a lot of problems, because whereas CHP plants that were
insatlled 2 years ago were seriously viable (they were selling back into
the
grid) now they are going under. And you dont sell it back to the REC you
sell it back to the grid.

Simon



There is ongoing lobbying to allow net-metering for domestic CHP ie any
electricity supplied back to the grid simply offsets what you bought in,
avoiding the need for contracts to sell back the electricity. This cuts out
the problems of selling back at wholesale prices (ie uneconomically low
rates), but would require a metering change. It looks like a promising
initiative and within the next 12 months we'll know if it has been
successful because the companies involved are still talking of a 2004
target
for general sale.

Neil B.


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