Solar Power

[icer]

kingers, what im trying to find out is how big I have to go before I have 0 power bills and I get, lets say, 50$ a month from power company. I was looking at a 4.2kw system for about 11k.

Still reading up on how rebates work. And dont know if those 4.4k systems priced at 15k already have the rebate done.

this place has 3.0k system for 10k Prime Energy Australia - Home

in my new house it will just be me and partner, we will prob average about 350-350kWh a month. atm 5 of us live in here.

[FPV_R-spec]

that what I was told by the salesman 9panel

would save me approx 1/3 off my bill 17 panel

will be 2/3. cost off electricity going up

my bill per 2 month is $350-400 saving 1/3

should make my bill approx $200-250.so if

can save $200 a bill times 6 bills a year =$1200

means have my panel cost of $7000 paid off in 5years

if that calculation is right or it a waste of time

will know if im right any day now bill is due

[icer]

let us all know.

if you dont mind me asking, how much did you pay for your setup for everything? how much was your rebate? which setup did you get (how many kWh)? can you post your last 6 months kWh electricity usage and your 1st solar power usage and bills?

if im asking for too much just tell me to piss off, but would like to hear peoples stories.

[ronburgundy]

I've been looking into it too, had a guy out here to check out our typical usage, how many panels could fit, how much sun we get etc. They did suggest a payback period of around 5 years so that sounds about right

[tab]

What's the life on panels, don't they need replacing every 5-7 years or something?

[Guest XR09]

From what I have gleamed the panels will last at least ten years if they are of a decent quality. But at the moment the material we use in the solar panels is not very efficient and loses its efficiency as it ages.

The same company that invented our plastic $ notes has come up with a much more efficient material and it will be available to the market in the next few years.

Or as soon as ASIO and a few other foreign governments leave them alone ha ha

My biggy is how they stand up to hail and storm damage and how much do they add to your insurance premiums. Ours looks farked and we have not had a bad storm here since we installed it a five years ago. If that cyclone ever hits the SEQ ha ha ha..... been here for 27 years and hear every year this is the year. One year they have to be right.

As I said ours is to heat the pool in winter and I know the bills go up big time if we use it. The pump for it is as large as the pools one. And yeh even now it struggles to keep the pool up around twenty four degrees. Where when we first installed it, it had no problem getting it up to twenty seven and more. No we didn't do it up that high on purpose. We have a few brain damaged people here. literally.

[mjadeb1984]

My folks just brought a 11.5kwh system worth about 20k they got some back from the govt. Not sure how much. I'll keep you informed how it goes as it's quite a bug system. The brochure said it should make about 70% of the houses power from a company called zen

[Kimberley Scott]

Solar Power is not yet cost efficient, unless rapid improvemets have occured recently.

They take more energy to make than they will ever produce.

Payback by my calculations is 25 to 30 years.

Government is subsidising to look to be doing the right thing and will get every penny back and more by raising electricity prices in future.

Power companies are big bussiness and lets face it us the little people will not win against them.

Long and short I wish it was the magic wand but it aint.

Scotty

[gsd112]

A relo works for a NSW energy providor as a engineer and he wont get it, and the government has done its ____ and is out to recoup all te money it has lost, so the 60c FIT will certainly drop substantially and power will go up to cover there loses. that's what he is hearing.

[FPV_R-spec]

been told to buy only the european brand panel

there last longer then the chinese should last

between 20-25 years and I bought conergy major

sponsor of the brisbane lion