Thread: Power prices, gas prices- ouch or Solar perhaps?

Originally Posted by Vern

.70 could be a stuff up on their behalf, I have never heard of a plan being so high, ever. These days .20 is a good deal.
I'd keep quiet about that one.

I only just switched to this plan & is a new account with AGL due to a subscriber name change, we were on $0.80 when we had the second solar installed on the shed roof & the installer said no one is that 'honeymoon deal' anymore, and advised when the inspector comes to check it for feed in that we would lose the high FIT , but it never changed & only just dropped to 0.70 a few months ago, which is ok because the buy price is cheaper too, So I'm not complaining.

Originally Posted by goingbush

I only just switched to this plan & is a new account with AGL due to a subscriber name change, we were on $0.80 when we had the second solar installed on the shed roof & the installer said no one is that 'honeymoon deal' anymore, and advised when the inspector comes to check it for feed in that we would lose the high FIT , but it never changed & only just dropped to 0.70 a few months ago, which is ok because the buy price is cheaper too, So I'm not complaining.

I'm in the Solar game, and have never heard of this. I will mention this to our sales team tomorrow and see if they know what's going on.

I can't get 20c from any retailer for where I am AFAIK. I used to get 21c until Origin dropped it to 10c so I swapped to AGL for their 12c.

Originally Posted by Graeme

I can't get 20c from any retailer for where I am AFAIK. I used to get 21c until Origin dropped it to 10c so I swapped to AGL for their 12c.

We have had feed back from a few customers lately that have managed to get 20c fit, it's turns out they had all called up at around 10am, this must be something to do with where the calls go, if it be local or overseas.

Just as well that I checked as for the last 2 days since my agreement expired the FIT has only been 5c. Unfortunately now only 10c and all usage charges have increased. Time to check that this plan is actually better for me than their cheapest plan with almost zero FIT.

The retailers must be making a packet from such low FIT then reselling at over 40c. I wonder why the ACCC hasn't had a hard look at them.

Originally Posted by Graeme

I wonder why the ACCC hasn't had a hard look at them.

...........and do something?

So my hearing of what the woman said wasn't quite correct, in that a heard 40 kWh daily feed-in limit at the 10c rate was only 14 kWh, averaged over the billing period, thereafter reducing to 5c.

Originally Posted by Graeme

So my hearing of what the woman said wasn't quite correct, in that a heard 40 kWh daily feed-in limit at the 10c rate was only 14 kWh, averaged over the billing period, thereafter reducing to 5c.

I had some serious trouble hearing what a call centre tech woman was saying recently (9am AEDT), partly because her roosters were crowing in the background.

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