Mcs

[Chalmers7]

Guys, I do biomass install for a renewable company, I'm self employed and currently fed up working for someone who knows next to nothing about systems.

I want to be able to offer the customer the full package including mcs accreditation, I want to be able to sort out the customers RHI.

whats really involved??

can a 3 man company benefit from this.?

whats your views gents?

 

[lame plumber]

the government keeps changing its mind so not worth spending as it can all change on a wim

 

[Pyramid]

Incentives were there now there not, who knows what's next? Did my air source pumps, with the insinuation of it going manic, but nothing- have noticed that very few photovoltaic solars going on roofs in last year again co- inciding with lack of the incentives!

 

[Worcester]

Depends where you see your business going, if you believe you can carve a niche out in the biomass (oil replacement) market, then it will be as important as being oftec to the oil boys.

I would have thought that there is and opportunity to build a nice niche working alongside existing oilies doing biomass upgrades (yes upgrades :cheesy: ) for them. ut them they may think you are stealing their customers. - Not if you have the MCS and work WITH them.

Costs? It ain't cheap to get MCS accredited and keep it. Our order books are pretty full on renewable heating, there again our customers are all off grid


Oh and buy the way - that last thing you want to get involved in is sorting out the customers RHI else you could be liable !!

 

[eaton]

Mcs has doubled my work load, also the comment about pv is ridiculous, it's still mad here. Pv everywhere you look

 

[Worcester]

On the PV side we mainly do commercial, though we've done 3 x more domestic PV this year than last year...