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

Originally Posted by Saitch

Weren't we assured by certain folk, that this wouldn't occur?

Sure were by a bunch of liars.In fact i can't believe some would think this was not going to happen.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Wow. You’re all heavy power burners!
We run a 5kw system and don’t get bills.

Gas bill gets paid from credits. And it’s sub $100 per quarter

Luckily you probably don't have 3 kids living at home,and a pool,like our sons do,they certainly go through some power.

Our power bill is just over $400 a quarter,and we run the office from here.
The AC in the office is on all day.

To much shade from our trees and the neighbours trees on both sides for solar,probably not worth having it anyway.

I'm glad we didn't invest much in solar. What a joke, now 0.04c/kwh feed in tariff now .... ridiculous.

Im in Vic and my electricity has never been cheaper, Im paying a fixed price of $70 a month in advance. ( pay in advance gives a lower rate) and if you bill is less than that it goes into credit. After about 18 months Im $850 in credit (they pay 3% intrest on your credit) , And the plan im on with OVO gives free power between 11am & 2Pm - so thats when I charge the EV.

I have absolutely no incentive to go to batteries & I'm not really fussed that FIT is only 4c .

Originally Posted by goingbush

Im in Vic and my electricity has never been cheaper, Im paying a fixed price of $70 a month in advance. ( pay in advance gives a lower rate) and if you bill is less than that it goes into credit. After about 18 months Im $850 in credit (they pay 3% intrest on your credit) , And the plan im on with OVO gives free power between 11am & 2Pm - so thats when I charge the EV.

I have absolutely no incentive to go to batteries & I'm not really fussed that FIT is only 4c .

I wish my bill was that cheap, who is your provider?

Originally Posted by goingbush

Im in Vic and my electricity has never been cheaper, Im paying a fixed price of $70 a month in advance. ( pay in advance gives a lower rate) and if you bill is less than that it goes into credit. After about 18 months Im $850 in credit (they pay 3% intrest on your credit) , And the plan im on with OVO gives free power between 11am & 2Pm - so thats when I charge the EV.

I have absolutely no incentive to go to batteries & I'm not really fussed that FIT is only 4c .

No, not 4 cents kwh ...... that is 100 times more than we are getting paid. 0.04 cents per kwh. an absolutely joke. Unless the government is handing you free tax payer money to install solar, the likelyhood you will save money is very tiny, especially in victoria (particually ballarat) where it is overcast through winter. You would be looking at $10,000+ for a reasonable sized system .... with the only payback being the power you consume (ie: don't buy from the power company). any generated power not used is gifted back to your power company.

$10,000 buys a whole ****load of power. why would anyone bother with solar .... its just like electric cars ... complete nonesense unless we gift a heap of the poor tax payers money to the wealthy that can afford houses and new cars.

I would prevent feed-in if only getting 0.04 c/kwh if I could devise a way to switch my HWS on and off when adequate/inadequate sunshine, which is currently done when there's enough feed-in to run the HWS. I've recently been dropped from 10c to 5c although the TOU rates dropped slightly.

Originally Posted by loanrangie

I wish my bill was that cheap, who is your provider?

I'm with OVO , the 3 for free plan, I have a pool pump running too between 11and 2 . too ,
heres a link with my ref code
OVO Energy | Loading... if you sign up using the we both get $120 credit.