Are you export limited? Essential Energy only allowed us 5kW so our 8kW system, which can get to 8.3kW, is often throttled. AGL allows us 10kW.
I'll be keeping an eye on plans around April when our feed-in averages not very far above 14kW.
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Are you export limited? Essential Energy only allowed us 5kW so our 8kW system, which can get to 8.3kW, is often throttled. AGL allows us 10kW.
I'll be keeping an eye on plans around April when our feed-in averages not very far above 14kW.
No, not to my understanding Graeme. Being in the Sydney basin we are on the Ausgrid network which allows 10 kW per phase, my system is just under that. The highest peak power so far is 9.3kW, the peak power on the day we generated 64kWh was 8.4kW.Quote:
Originally Posted by Graeme
ROI for batteries is terrible, can't say we have ever sold a battery for ROI reasons, all have been for grid supply issues, money to burn, wasted excess pv generation to the grid, or **** factor! Hey, I got a Tesla[emoji1]Quote:
Originally Posted by SBD4
That was what we found when looking at battery systems.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vern
The ROI exceeds the projected lifespan of the batteries in our application.
Instead a couple of EU22i and a changeover switch gives us power security during those events. (We keep plenty of fuel and cycle it out regularly to keep it fresh).
ROI on batteries is bad -Unless your in South OZ perhaps in some business sectors? [bigwhistle][bigwhistle][bigwhistle]
Poor sods in some ares having a long black out now!
Dinner by candle light is nice of course[biggrin]
Cold dinner, followed by a cold shower?
BBQ I hope for someQuote:
Originally Posted by JDNSW
Just had a quick look at the panels above my house- If I did it again it would be at least 15% more panels than inverter! Inverter and panels are 5kw (5.2 really) and I would have 10kw+ of panels and inverter.
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The are much better in Nov- March here. Cool and sunny is best of course. The 6000kWh year in and year out is mostly used by me. All of it in Winter Some spare in summer is exported. Screen shot below shows this very clearly.
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Still Looking for way to use my spare home power at work. The 'community Battery model' seem to allow this. Google is not my friend on this topic. 'transfer solar power between houses' is not a big hit for what I am looking for. [bighmmm]
Honestly I would be very happy to pay others exporting solar power for their excess as well. Might be of interest with those with feed in tariffs like my 6 cents [bigrolf]
My work system is almost the same - Home panels are laid flat. Work is on a optimal slant. There is not a big difference.
If you assume .36 cents grid price per kWh, or much higher soon, its about $2000+ per year of power. 6 years (first was part year only) I think systems were about $5000 each installed. Given I expect 20 + years from them the maths is pretty clear
regarding my $0.70 FIT, I did a bit of digging and found our premises is one of the 88,000 Victorian properties on the PremiumFIT , Previous owner must have negotiated it. Looks like its around till 2024 .Quote:
Originally Posted by Vern
Solar premium feed-in tariff
In Coming $$$$$
"Regulated power prices set to surge 'at least 20 per cent' this winter as energy bill reprieve ends
" Regulated power prices set to surge '''at least 20 per cent''' this winter as energy bill reprieve ends - ABC News
The delay has been nice- Taxpayer funded of course[bawl]
The Kicker is home and business prices so this will hurt possibly like interest rates increases for many.
I have tried and failed to get my sparky to spend a little time to move my current 5kWh systems and put a 10kWh system at work. [bighmmm]
Home since mid 2016 is a total of 43.462 mWh total. I use almost all Solar at work but give away far to much at home still.
