Dear James and team - and copied to Owen Paterson MP
Your letter was about solar. It was nice of you to write.
It is not clear from your letter that you understand that for those of us who have solar panels on our roofs (micro generation), each of us is reducing, a little, the necessity for macro generation from large fossil fueled and nuclear power stations. We are generating our own electricity and exporting what we don't use for others to use. In other words, each of our homes is a mini power station when the sun shines! Do you understand that, I wonder?
Therefore, is it not right, and only fair and reasonable after all, that we should be paid for the electricity we are generating for the nation? We are the true patriots, after all! Or, do you not get it?
Every single building could be generating some electricity for its own use and, what cannot be used, can be exported for others to benefit from. Of course, we still need macro generation for when the sun does not shine. But solar is, at least a help, do you not think?
Do any of you have solar power for your own use and that of the nation?
£8,000 for my 24 east and west facing panels on my mid terrace, three bedroom town house and fitted two years ago this month. I love my rather complacent, smug satisfaction of reducing my greenhouse gas emissions that we can very well do without! Enhancing the natural greenhouse effect is most definitely not a very good idea, at all!
Please write back to tell me if you understand how important it is economically and ecologically to use the sun to make electricity, when it does shine!
Please set your own brilliant example to your own colleague and friend, Owen Paterson who has never understood. And he was Secretary of State for the Environment for a time, too! But, is there any hope for you, James? Of course, you understand.
Best wishes
Tim
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