by Did67 » 22/08/13, 14:29
Some elements:
a) we are talking about specific installations (generally 3 kWp) - because large "professional" projects are something else.
b) Yes, regulatory instability in France is a "permanent cold shower". Few have understood the "mechanism" behind the quarterly adjustment of tariffs based on the cost of panels (among other things).
Suddenly, after the shower of the brutal revision of the tariffs following the "bubble" that had been created by the tariff of 60 cents, these permanent revisions (normal and "logical") make doubt the individuals little informed of the veracity of the guaranteed rate for 20 years!
Few people know that the signed tariff is acquired!
Many believe it is the state - which is said to go bankrupt. Few people know that it is the CSPE, paid for by all!
c) A few mediatized "glitches" were added to this (Scheuten panels which risk catching fire).
d) You put the bankruptcies in series of installers following the exit of the bubble (including a significant part of opportunists whose only project was to make "golden balls" in a very short time).
But also serious people, sunk by the cessation of orders from destabilized individuals or now in doubt.
e) Everyone knows that it is a little more complicated. Yes, an inverter can burn out and it must be replaced (how do you know if such and such a brand, which guaranteed it, still exists, knowing that the best German panel producers have gone bankrupt! Cf Scheuten. are absent subscribers!).
That from time to time there is a faulty sign ...
f) And it is only on this unstable ground that the "telemarketing sharks" have settled, promising "ready-made" solutions, above all do not try to understand, we take care of everything, sign there! " finished to definitely cast doubt on the sector.
Today, how can an average individual (profile: owner of 55 years old, decent income, the children have left home, he has a little cash and a "sensitive green" profile and "wants to do something") act with confidence?
a) No serious "labeling" guarantees that it is not dealing with a "shark"!
In a liberal economy, any company can go bankrupt and all the commitments it has made will be in vain. This will be the case if a "big problem" concerns all the panels or all the inverters installed by a given company. The "guarantees" that it has granted - or even "sold" - will then be without any assistance. Paper. From the Russian loan. Monkey money.
There should be a guarantee fund as there is for car insurance. But who would pay?
b) simply how to find the serious installer? Who offers an installation of 3 kWp for 12 euros incl. Tax turnkey connected without a curb?
I read one or the other post of Solorea on this site. How can I know that it is not a nièmeresirgence of a shark which has just declared itself bankrupt and reappears under another name?
c) If I am still motivated, I go on the internet.
And there I come across:
1) sites with "ultra-ecologists" (what elsewhere I called the "green kmehrs") who show me that PV is not profitable, who talk to me about gray energy, that it is a scandal to subsidize this (without looking far, read all the wires on PV on this site) ... that the State would do better to put this money in insulation, in solar thermal, in geothermal energy or that do I know ...
So my doubt grows!
2) Shark sites, which obviously tell me the opposite. But if I started to search a little bit, I immediately see where the scam is. So I am not at all reassured by this blah!
3) The EdF ENR site. And I say to myself weird, the nuclear giant who explains to me that PV is profitable and who proposes to install that for me? Are they kidding me? As I heard about "green washing", I deduce that it is "greenwashing" and therefore that all that, it is a trap-simpleton!
In short, I am 55 years old, a house, with a roof facing south, no shadow, I am "sensitive", tell me how I do not to be fooled?
PS: French pricing methods, with the bonus of integrated signs, also play a destabilizing role. Because suddenly, I touch the waterproofing of the roof, so if poorly finished work, I have inflitrations. If I do not trust the company (which is the case given the above), I tell myself that there will be no one left when there is a problem. This risk is much less with the panels placed over the tiles, the German way. There, I tell myself that if it leaks at a fixing (lug), I go up on the roof with a little silicone and I regulate that myself! Or that the first roofer can do it if I am old enough to climb the roofs!
Here.
To interpret what I just wrote, know that:
a) I took part in a professional project of 600 m ² of PV (at 60 cents the kWh; hyper-profitable; but indeed, problems on the inverters - solved, a problem of mass, leakage current… - , two faulty panels, including one struck by lightning!)
b) I am therefore rather well informed
c) but on a personal basis, although interested, based on the above, I did not take action although interested.
d) I have obviously been drunk on the phone by people who start with a lie ("information campaign ..", "advice for saving energy" ... "which I send for a walk, by principle, with politeness but firmness!)
e) the company which made our professional installation, very serious and competent, went bankrupt not by incompetence, but because it saw too big, too fast, and carried out a very big building site for a German company which has goes ... bankrupt and has not paid; they stayed with the slate and therefore bankruptcy too!
In a private capacity, I am therefore quite in the situation described not to know who to trust, even if I am better informed than the average French (average costs, technical characteristics, taxation ...). I can therefore, if I devote the necessary time to it, fairly quickly outsmart a direct seller with the "shark" model. But that annoys me!
Hope you are sincere and that it will serve you!
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