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8th August 2023
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1. Could you send me the paperwork that justifies this claim about solartogether:
"The scheme makes it easier and cheaper for you to install solar panels onto your home"
Public interest: You are endorsing Solartogether, a dutch company run for profit. To make it legal for you to endorse, you have to be able to back up claims such as the one above with data.
There is information available on the Solar Together website, and Wokingham Borough Council website with further information on the scheme.
How the scheme is easier:
Solar Together does all the research, pre-vetting and qualification of installers on behalf of residents. The offer is presented in a simple way allowing residents 4 weeks to decide if they wish to accept or not. The registration process is free, so anyone can receive their free personal offer to then make an informed decision on whether they wish to proceed with solar panels.
How the scheme is cheaper:
Solar Together pools a group of customers from one region together and then presents these customers to pre-vetted and qualified installers at a reverse auction. The bidding installers are able to provide a discount price against the market due to the scheme supplying a large number of customers.
Solar Together works with Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS) to understand regional pricing trends to calculate market price indication. MCS provides Solar Together with region-specific data covering the sizes of installations in a region and the price paid for them over the last 6 months. This enables Solar Together to generate the typical market price for each system size offered through the scheme, and to calculate the discount we have achieved through the scheme against that typical market price.
With this information, Solar Together can indicate the discount against the market at the time of the auction. For the Berkshire 2023 scheme, an average discount of 35% against the market was secured and for this year it was 38% - of course this differs depending on the number of panels a household install.
