The Great Solar Panel and energy Scam

Many home owners are fitting solar panels at the moment.

Around here the roofs are filling up with new installations. 

Having fitted panels myself some years go I  have to agree they are very useful, as long as its sunny.

During summer months the house is usually self sufficient for our electrical needs straight off the roof in the day time and the batteries keep us up and running throughout the night, we also have the added advantage of never being effected by a grid power cut.

So if all this is so good why is this entry talking about a scam?

Two reasons, and both by energy "resellers", that bunch of corrupt businesses who are busy making billions of pounds from everyone at the moment under the pretence of an "energy crisis".

Do you realise that the company you pay for gas and electricity do not provide you with anything, no really they don't, if you think about it how could they. 

My electricity cable is also connected to my neighbours house and all the other housed around the road and the town. 

So how could OVO send electricity to me and Octopus to next door and British Gas to the people at the end of the road ?  Its exactly the same with gas .

None of these companies do anything at all except make you send them a meter reading and from that meter reading bill you for something which you assume was gas or electricity .  

To make matters worse they then put the prices up telling you its all based on the cost of oil or gas or whatever even though you are supposed to be paying for electricity. Its all very well organised by these companies to stop you asking "hold on what am I paying you for?"

Not happy with just deceiving people into paying for something they don't supply they have now found an even better way to make money from us.  

Fit solar panels to your roof, pay for them, pay for their installations and then feed any energy you don't use into the national grid. 

The companies then pay perhaps 10-15 pence a kWh to you for producing the energy and "sell" it to the house next-door for 25-30 pence per kWh making a 100% profit by doing nothing at all and you paid for the panels.

If you dare to ask these con merchants why they only pay you half the price for kWh they tell you its because they are paying for the infrastructure and the grid ---- but hold on ---- thats paid for already and all maintained by charging a "standing charge "  for both gas a electricity supply. 

A charge that has doubled in the last 3 years because of the cost of gas or oil or some obscure non related cost.

In this modern world we all use electricity and as long as we do the con men like Octopus, Ovo, BG etc etc will continue to find new ways to take our money for doing nothing at all except send us a bill, for a meter reading we are gullible  enough to send them.