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31/03/10 | Blowing Away Confusion on Clean Energy Payments

Mendip Media has broken an emerging story about incompetence and chaos in the government’s wind energy policy on behalf of its client, Coemi.

As one of the UK’s leading wind turbine installers, Coemi, has been dismayed to find out that a compulsory certification scheme for each wind turbine model sold in the UK cannot be implemented because of lack of testing facilities and huge costs.

Without the certificate, customers who have bought the powerful 18 metre high wind turbines stand to loose out on a feed in tariff paid by the government for clean energy.

Coemi’s director, Paul Young, says, “this could demolish the wind turbine industry in the UK as there is only one place in Scotland set to deal with around 90 installers.

“Each model requires six months’ testing and costs around £30,000 per turbine yet there are just eight test pads to carry out that certification.”

The confusion surrounding the implementation of the long awaited FITS (feed in tariff scheme) means that potential investors in wind energy may now delay purchasing the high tech wind turbines which will threaten the future of clean energy microgeneration in the UK.
 

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