THE National Grid was set up to spread power across the UK and to guarantee security of supply. Generators bid to supply power, those who supply the base load and those who are contracted as standby generators. There is a market where the generators bid to supply the power, the lowest bidders then generate electricity for a given period.
I find it difficult to understand where Dave Haskell is coming from. I have solar power installed and paid for by me. We generate two and a half times the amount we use. We benefit by using power generated only when it is generated.
When power is not generated at night and on overcast days we buy power from the grid and are charged ten times per unit more than we are paid by the generators.
We are paid by electricity consumers a fixed amount for the installation. The sums are quite complicated, but we are subsidising the generators, so indirectly all consumers.
The Green Deal is a rip off, it is not a level playing ground.
IAN CAMPBELL RUTGER
The Green
Pembroke
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