GREEN HOME SCHEMES Solar Panel Letter - real or scam?

Tue 24 Dec 2024, 00:07

Hi again,Malcolm

please ignore my query above. Have now searched trustpilot reviews, and all confirm as a scam. Numerous homes with older PVpanels in central Scotland are all reporting receiving this same GHS offer, and rate the company 1star out of 5. Enough said. Have a happy Christmas, and sorry for troubling you. Regards. Stewart 

Mon 23 Dec 2024, 23:40

Hello Malcolm

Similar to your post of 17 July, I have also received a mailing as you describe. 

Thinking it too good to be true (my existing PV panels are 12 years old, but still working fine ), I googled “reviews of GHS”, and saw your comments about smelling a rat here.

Could you possibly reply or contact me to let me know if you found out that this is indeed a scam/marketing ploy, as I’m reluctant to give them my contact details? Perhaps by email if possible, or via this site.

I live in Dunblane, Perthshire, email “stewart@newtongardenservices.com”, tel 07814 530196. Thanks in anticipation. Regards. Stewart

Wed 17 Jul 2024, 18:21

We smell a rat. We've just had a letter to "The Householder" with roof Photo-voltaic Panels fitted under the FIT scheme for electricity feed-in about a Grant scheme to take advantage of a £4000 grant with the "Green Homes Scheme" to replace our array of 250watt Solar Panels with "new tier one 435watt panels".

Looking with a magnifying glass at the very small white text on light green background I can see no sign of an imprimatur from any Government body. And no publishers details, address or company details etc - apart from an email address - mail@greenhomescheme.com (If I recall correctly publications are required to give more than just an email).

Anyone else received these letters - and anyone know anything about a grant being suddenly magicked into existence on an exact coincidence of a little bit greenish Kings Speech? 

And as far as I know from something read in the science press a year or so back, doubling PV panel output is only being seen as possible by use of  bilayer Silicon and Perovskite material panels - and Perovskites are still very much in the development and prototype implementation stage and an Oxford based company is doing trials ...

Anyone with a "hardened" web browser and computer been to have a look at the website? My Linux laptop died and I'm now feeling too suspicious in case of a booby-trapped Malware website to want to take a look. OK just because you are paranoid doesn't mean to say the b******* aren't out to get you...