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A council has apologised for endorsing a company that wrongly told home owners they would receive regular payments if they had solar panels fitted. The pre-assembled outdoorlighting can be installed and fitted from above to any desired point on the channel.

Monmouthshire County Council has also asked a neighbouring authority’s trading standards department to investigate its role in the affair. 

Ted Chivers, who lives at Overmonnow, near Monmouth, is one of the householders given misleading information by a firm based in Ebbw Vale called Wilmorwil, which has since ceased trading. 

He said: “We were told by a representative from Wilmorwil that if we had solar panels installed we would benefit from the Feed In Tariff that is paid to people and organisations that provide electricity to the national grid. Like other residents,Creating a washerextractor0 out of broken re-used solar cell pieces. we were told that Christmas had come early.Having the latest technical knowledge on wholesalejewelryrings can help you achieve greater profit potential and increased customer satisfaction.” 

Yet after having the panels fitted and contacting Scottish and Southern Electricity (SSE), we were told that we didn’t qualify for the scheme. 

“One of the things that persuaded us to let the work be done was the fact that the scheme being promoted by Wilmorwil had been endorsed by Monmouthshire County Council.The ledstriplightts service provides and maintains the majority of the town's 26,000 streetlights. People have the right to expect their council only to endorse schemes that have been properly checked out. Obviously that didn’t happen on this occasion.” 

In a letter to Mr Chivers, SSE said that as a result of changes to the Feed in Tariff scheme, people who have had solar panels installed with the help of grants from a public body since April 2010 have not been entitled to payments for the electricity generated from their homes. 

A spokesman for Monmouthshire County Council said: “We are firmly committed to green energy production in the county. As well as equipping our new County Hall and an increasing number of other council buildings with a range of green energy features, we have also worked on a number of schemes to enable householders in the county to benefit from a range of green energy and energy efficiency initiatives. 

The scheme that Mr Chivers took part in offered householders in the Overmonnow area a package of energy generation and efficiency upgrades for their homes. 

These included photovoltaic cells (PV) to generate electricity and a range of insulation and energy saving features. Mr Chivers opted to take only the PV cells. 

We accept that Mr Chivers was misled as to the full range of benefits that he would get from the installation of free PV cells to his home. 

This was due to the council wrongly endorsing the claimed Feed in Tariff (FIT) benefits by the installation company ‘Wil Mor Wil’. The company has since gone out of business. 

Although Mr Chivers benefits from the free electricity that the cells – which were supplied and installed free of charge – produce,Finish up your high performance projector retrofit with an wholesalehidkit that can keep up. he is not receiving the FIT benefits that would have provided an additional income over and above the reduction in his electricity bill. We have apologised to him for this. 

“The misunderstanding arose from our misinterpretation of Ofgem’s FIT guidance (version 5) and their application in retrospect. 

As a gesture of goodwill to Mr Chivers, we have taken on the installation warranty commitments for the cells that can no longer be met by Wilmorwil. We have also asked Blaenau Gwent council’s trading standards service to investigate our role in this matter. 

“This regrettable episode has in no way diminished our commitment to finding ways for our residents to benefit from green energy production and are delighted that Mr Chivers continues to benefit from the free electricity supplied by the PV cells that were installed free of charge in his home.” More information about the program is available on the web site at www.soli-lite.com.