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  Quite right too Jan. It's not as if we're up to our necks in debt in the UK. Highly irresponsible move from the government. It's the sort of scheme which might have been invented by socialist economist (oxymoron if there ever was) Will Hutton.
  The payback figure of nearly 100 years are calculated by non other than the Building research establishment.
  Forgetting that the lifespan of Uvpc windows is less than fifty years and you will definitely have to replace the panels after less than twenty years because of condensation the figures for payback time are borne out by simple calculation.
  So you spend £4000 on installing the windows and the energy savings amount to perhaps 5% (the difference between single and doulble glazing performance) and you might be saving yourself fifty quid per year it would take eighty years to recover the costs of the initial outlay.
  As I say add to that the cost of replacing the panels which deteriorate over time and the cost increases even more.
  It's rather like the rising damp con which has infected the building industry over the past thirty years. A non problem with a very expensive solution which doesn't work.

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