Solar Power

[Phil Spencer]

As soon as I changed to Solar tariffs changed to Peak and Off Peak, prices change as well, about 13c for off peak and 29c for peak...

So it does change the way you do things, washing on weekends etc... to make the most of things...

That is about what I thought but I could not find the figures any where they all talk about the feed in tariff thanks

[Christopha]

Just had a friend here, he has been on the phone on and off all day in conference as his firm is a supplier of solar systems and the earthquake and tsunami has stopped all equipment from Japan and he says that they will be months behind in filling and fitting orders.

[Wongo]

Mine will be installed this Friday.

[chrisb691]

As soon as I changed to Solar tariffs changed to Peak and Off Peak, prices change as well, about 13c for off peak and 29c for peak...

So it does change the way you do things, washing on weekends etc... to make the most of things...

do you have a smart meter?

[flat_tyre]

I had a Smart meter but apparently, at the time it was not smart enough !!. It was replaced with another digital 2 way meter.

[chrisb691]

I had a Smart meter but apparently, at the time it was not smart enough !!. It was replaced with another digital 2 way meter.

Then your distributor must be guessing your peak/off-peak conponents, as they can't be measuring it. Might be worthwhile asking them how they are doing it.

[flat_tyre]

It is the correct meter for Solar, in\out, peak\off peak.. At the time they could not measure power fed back into the grid with the Smart meters they were fitting, so it was replaced..

[ian]

Quotes should all be in by tomorrow, they twll me that they will be able to have it up and running before the cut-off date

Phil
If you're in NSW you might want to check this information NSW Solar Bonus Scheme - Applications and connections | Industry & Investment NSW
the NSW scheme has a cap of 300MW, so far applications total 329MW with 210MW connected.

[crowie]

G'Day Phil,
Just on board with the thread.
I had "Ausie Solar" from lawson on the Blue Mountains install a 3.3Kw system on my second storey roof back in Oct/Nov 2010.
From December to now I've generated about 1100Kwh for which I will receive $0.60 per Kwh.
The electricity bill is due so am looking forward to seeing our cost comparasion.
Cheers, Crowie

[BEKKY]

Hi again,
As mentioned in an earlier reply my system was to be fitted Wednesday.
It happened this morning only took 4 hours to do the job with 16 panels.
Have'nt had the subtract meter fitted yet.
The standard meter is happily running backwards.
It's a sunny day at the moment with scattered cloud and the inverter is reading
around 2kw.
Keith

[crowie]

Hi again,
As mentioned in an earlier reply my system was to be fitted Wednesday.
It happened this morning only took 4 hours to do the job with 16 panels.
Have'nt had the subtract meter fitted yet.
The standard meter is happily running backwards.
It's a sunny day at the moment with scattered cloud and the inverter is reading
around 2kw.
Keith

Got to be happy with that Keith.
My 18 panel system produced 1085 Kwh over the past 92 days [till 11/03/11], only half the days have been good to product a full 20+Kwh due to cloud & or rain.
The electricity bill was for 101 days.
Nett to be paid $145 in a household of 4 adults.
Very Happy.
Cheers, Crowie

[hughie]

One thing I noticed is that if the house is largely empty ie all at work,then you will definitely have as much rebate as your system can generate.

On the other hand if the house is fully occupied all day the benefit may not be so great. But as an offset for future power increases its better than nothing.

[Wongo]

Sorry sir, I didn't get your point.

The system generates the same amount of electricity wheather the house is empty or not.

[RETIRED]

True, but when you are home you are using it so the rebate declines. That is what Hughie was on about.

[Wongo]

Ok