Hopefully our wood burner will start paying for itself this winter. We still have to buy £190 worth or wood each year, but it's cheaper than heating our draughty dump with gas and electric.
We really want to go solar and have had a quote done, but there's no way we can afford it. Even with a loan it'd take us 20 years to pay it off using the feed-in tariff to cover it.
Once again these savings are only available to people that can already afford to buy into the schemes, the people who would really benefit from cheaper power can't find the initial fee and so remain poor. >
