Designate6361

joined 1 year ago
[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Engaged in Republican politics

So going on Real Time and throwing shit at the republican party.

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Now I don't feel as guilty

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Not with us, after 4pm is our peak usage sun won't be up for much longer

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How can we shift our peak power use when no one is there to use it?. Again we did all the math even with the company and we all came to the same figure. If we did solar only then the system would cost us more in the long term as we still need to draw power during our peak usage. Battery was the only way to make it viable.

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Nope that's literally the only way you can make solar viable here. We get no credits or anything for the excess power we generate and we use hardly any power during the day. So literally any excess power the panels generate goes to waste. And if we go to a smaller unit the money we save is negligible again

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah we get nothing from any excess power generation that goes back into the grid. It used to be worth it years and years ago but they stopped because it was costing the energy generators too much.

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

95% of what we generate during the goes to the battery and once fully charged we can go days without needing to recharge it

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 9 points 10 months ago (6 children)

That's the thing, without the Battery it's not cost effective, we'll pay more for the system then it would recover. Our peak usage is at night when the sun is not there.

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (10 children)

6.2kwh solar panels 14kwh battery

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago
[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 25 points 10 months ago (22 children)

its still costing me 30k AUD to put in a decent solar and battery system, i mean prices have come down but they are still well beyond what is affordable by the avg person.

[–] Designate6361@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So thats where Vivek got that idea from

view more: next ›