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Feedback: Light of whose life?

20 November 2013

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Light of whose life?

POWER your home “24 hrs a day with green energy generated by your solar system,” says the website aweenergy.com, plugging the “revolutionary product” Midnight Sun. It goes on to say that users can still benefit from the “Feed in Tariff”. That’s what the UK government calls the “guaranteed” price at which people with solar panels can sell their excess electricity to the National Grid.

Reader Simon Mallett dug around and found reports that the system costs £5500 plus…

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