Nah. I’m in Australia and our electricity bills have been slaughtered by two thirds. We used to have a powerpal (it died, ironically for the following) and even midwinter there would be huge chunks of the day where it registered 0 meter use - we are literally powering everything in the house just via solar.
So even without a battery (they’re 20k+) we’ve cut a large chunk of fossil fuels clean out of use. We also feed back into the grid - we get bugger all money for it, but that’s not the point. The point is reduction of fossil fuelled power.
That sounds way nicer than the US. Even the high pressure sales guy said the math didn’t math for our house. It’s basically a 20 year loan to pay off the panels and even though we don’t have many trees I guess our house is at the wrong angle? To break even we would have to make it to 20 years. To save we would have to keep it longer than that. But they were only warranteed for 10. No thanks.
Nah. I’m in Australia and our electricity bills have been slaughtered by two thirds. We used to have a powerpal (it died, ironically for the following) and even midwinter there would be huge chunks of the day where it registered 0 meter use - we are literally powering everything in the house just via solar.
So even without a battery (they’re 20k+) we’ve cut a large chunk of fossil fuels clean out of use. We also feed back into the grid - we get bugger all money for it, but that’s not the point. The point is reduction of fossil fuelled power.
Either the batteries are way more expensive in Australia than here in Europe or you have old prices.
The batteries that I am running are definetly much cheaper than yours (<5k), although I did install them myself.
It’s called the Australia Tax for a reason!
But yeah, we’re looking at a 16-20kwh battery system (we have a huge solar array) so $$
That sounds way nicer than the US. Even the high pressure sales guy said the math didn’t math for our house. It’s basically a 20 year loan to pay off the panels and even though we don’t have many trees I guess our house is at the wrong angle? To break even we would have to make it to 20 years. To save we would have to keep it longer than that. But they were only warranteed for 10. No thanks.
Money is the point for most people, I would think. Altruism doesn’t pay the bills.
If you’re at the point where you’re selling excess, you’re already not paying for electricity.
You may enjoy playing snide gotchas. I don’t.