Any install which can stand with only routine subsidies is fine, but PV cells have several (5-6, I estimate) more years development before they can routinely be used in this country without major subsidies and prices are likely to spike because of rare earth shortages.

The major problem is wind power, actually, there are major installs going up which will never be commercially viable.

For myself, I’d like to mandate solar water heating (if PV panels are not present) on new housing, myself, since those /are/ generally economically viable.

For that matter, I’d give breaks to stamp duty based on the eco-rating of the house. That’s the kind of thing which will encourage landlords to upgrade the housing stock!

(But not nearly as much as rent caps, which can be lowered for non-compliant properties…)

Funnily enough, PV cells have fallen in price by 50% in the last few months, like with all new technologies it does takebut a long time before it becomes economically viable.

A classic example would be the gas industry as in how many billions / trillions of pounds have been spent on that industry and its percentage feedback now? I think renewables are well down on the amount of investment overall.

I do agree we need a mixture of technologies including nuclear, as to put all our eggs ine one basket would be suicidal, the reason it is costing us so much now is that very little real term investment has been made into the energy industry over the last 30 years.

We should have used the money generated from North Sea Gas ti reinvest in the enxt generation of energy such as Nucelar etc at the time, but the goverment in question used it to provide tax cuts, all in all politically stupid.

Energy costs are set to keep rising very sharply ahead of inflation in the real world.

Nuclear power – it makes sense. But it’s not as good for Cameron’s friends, so it’s being sidelined. They’ve realised how much RO generators can make them…

(Energy “efficiency”? Ah yes, getting people to disconnect. Since landlords don’t give a flying ***** about it, they don’t pay the energy bill!)