Being a practitioner it’s healthy to start with realism. Budgets are stretched, cutbacks enforced, while procurement rules are toughened at local authority level. Add to this the fact that solar photovoltaic is still seen as a sustainability issue, the domain of the sustainability officer, not the financial director.
‘Bouncebackability’ is a favourite term of the former Northern Ireland footballer Iain Dowie. Given that one of his main claims to fame is the headed own-goal that put West Ham out of the League Cup on a miserable night in Stockport in 1996, he probably knows what he’s talking about.