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Had a ground mounted 16k system since 2022. It's a grid tied system because here in NY State we have net metering. It works like a bank account for kwhs. The excess solar production goes to the grid, the bank account, and withdraw kwhs when needed at night or in winter for example. We get a 1 for 1 credit. In the time we've had the system it has saved us $5000 USD.
Cost me less to make my homestead offgrid, than what my local utility wanted to run 250ft of wire into the house and install the meter. Im in Saskatchewan. 24kw of solar, 4kw of wind, 30kw of storage. Only time the generator started up to charge the batteries? I was too sick to go clear the panels off from the snow.
Don't forget to thank your neighbors for subsidizing your Solar. Your government forces the power company to pay you more than they pay every other electricity provider.
@@spazoq I did thank all my republican neighbors for subsidizing my solar system. For the few that complained I asked if they had ever complained about subsidies and tax breaks for the U.S. fossil fuel industry and if they had ever complained about future tax expenditures to seal abandoned gas and oil wells.
@@spazoq Oh I feel so guilty!
@@markvalery8632 *yawn*. Oil companies pay an effective tax rate of 41.% to 48.%, depending on the company. These rates are among the top 25% taxpaying companies. Ongoing investment expenses are 11.4%, Beer makers, Personal Computer makers, and Magazine publishing makes more profit than the Oil industry. Estimates are if the Federal government had allowed more drilling on federal land, the income to the government would have been $2.7 trillion.
Your channel is inspiring.
I installed 10kW panels on my roof and have driven the Deepal L07 (the sedan version of the S07 coming to Australia).
I am able to cut down my monthly electricity bill from 15,000 Thai Baht to mere 2,500 Baht. Amazing!!!
Gas bills? 5,000/month. Now ZERO!!!! Got the energy for my car from solar. And I turned on air cond all day. Only pay for electricity at night.
Overall I save 17,500 Baht or ~ $700 AUD per month.🎉
The problem is that in Australia the STC installation rebate system invalidates upgrading most solar systems. If you install a bigger new inverter and new panels, older solar panels that are fully operational and safe (but have dropped off the latest approved list of solar panels) cannot be connected to the new inverter and allow the upgrade to be eligible for the STC rebate. This forces many upgrades to not really be an upgrade but a total removal of the system. Luckily there is a booming diy projects market where people can use these old panels and put them on a vehicle or shed.
It would be great for the environment if a law was passed which outlawed the dumping of solar panels in landfill and encouraged re-use and recycling.
Excellent comment.
People don't realise how difficult it can be to get 3phase as electricity demand on the fragile grid is very real.
V2G is coming to protect the grid from overloads and blackouts.
I got the exact same panels installed two days ago 👍🏽👍🏽 with a Tesla power wall. So good!
I have the same panel series. The busbars have been moved to the back, so that they don't block any light.
These panels work very well in low light conditions and on a cloudy day you have enough of them to power the home.
Also with clouds the light is dispersed, making all of them work, regardless of their angle.
In the Netherlands we don't get much for our excess solar power anymore because there are so many that it outperforms demand on a sunny day or on sunday when most businesses are closed. The best solution is a home battery.
Not sure that the virtual power plant makes sense in the long run with big grid batteries taking over, but if you are getting a huge battery to charge your EV, you might as well make extra some money while it lasts.
Hi Sam
Installed longi panels 4 yrs ago (here in Melbourne) and installed SolarEdge inverter. Great products no problems. Since then installed a SolarEdge battery and last month an EV charger. All in the SolarEdge ecosystem. More expensive but fully integrated and allows expansion to future installations eg water heaters, cook tops etc. this expansion is another thing to consider in a purchase
Thanks for sharing your experience with Solar Power this gives me more insight and confident that when one installs this solution what to expect.
You are welcome!
Sam. Yours is a uniquely NSW experience. Here in Vic there are several differences. Firstly we are limited to 5kw feed in single phase or 10kw per phase for 3 phase. That is all contingent on the distribution Co allowing any feed in, many people are denied. Metering in most areas in Australia is run by the distribution Co, not the retailer. There is no upfront charge here for metering. I am a sparky here in Vic. Feed in is no 3.3c kwh. For the first few summers I would have a slightly negative bill, but last summer the best I could do was a charge of $4 in Feb. I have a 6.6kw 1 phase system with solar edge optimisers and a 5kw solar edge inverter. A lot of your calculations can not apply in most parts of Australia.
Love the channel. Hope the Xpeng is a great car.
Colin
I am in Victoria and have three phase. But I'm limited to 5kW/Phase. I have about 20kW of solar but it only reaches that output if I have enough loads (EV charging is about the biggest). In a typical sunny day this time of year I only make about $2. (Feed in for me is also 3.3c/kWh) Although that more than covers the connection charge and I don't get a bill, its nowhere near the $10 per day that Sam is getting. I wonder if there is some special deal with the power providers he has in Newcastle ?
@@bryanackerly7775 nope .Sam just exaggerates.
Sam all the best to your family mate, but wait until you get batteries, I buy 1/4 of a kWh per day and export about 10-20 kWh's/d (my system is only 10kW (half of yours) I installed the FranklinWH batteries (x2) because of the off grid and black start capability. I did also buy the generator module of them so I can recharge the batteries by generator if I need to, so far I haven't needed to use that. We had a 48 hour blackout here because of the recent high winds and I didn't run out of power at all and I have a granny flat and a full house occupied. The batteries were so good I even ran some extention cords accross the fence so my next door neigbours had some power. I can't wait to get my EV so I can store my excess in that rather than export to the theiving $hits that are our energy retailers. Yes it cost some money but "Sticking it to the man" is so worth it!
Black panels tend to be monocrystalline panels, which are generally more efficient than the 'blue' panels, which tend to be polycrystalline. Black panels are more expensive on the whole therefore, but you get your return back sooner through higher efficiency.
Tytyty
I dunnow TS, I've found black panels attract more heat so they would be slightly less effcient in the peak hours of sun but because these are East West it shouldn't be a big issue for him. You will usually see this on the monitoring platforms as a flat line on the bell curve, saying that, they do look good and they still do a fantastic job at generating energy. Longi are a good company to deal with as well. Poly vs Mono? 30 years in and I still have not seen real world evidence, mono's have higher peaks but polys tend to start earlier and finnish later on the bell curve so it's kinda even. Poly's are cheaper and have good warranties these days as good as the monos, so it's horses for courses I guess.
Aussie has the highest penetration of roofing solar in the world. Great to see you joined the club.
4 million+ homes with solar, and still plenty left to install yet...
You really need to talk about and explain Inverters as well as Panels!
Bifacials perform even better with indirect light as it bounces through from both sides of the panels. We have 8Kw of JA Solar here at 36 degrees south. Good in cloudy weather which NZ excels in. 😊
@puririmoth does that work roof mounted or do you need to get them ground mounted to allow reflection to reach the backside?
@@ttkddry We have both a Clenergy Pergola with 15 panels with polished concrete below and panels terrace mounted but set off the roof about 40 degrees.
Sam, daylight savings doesn't give your panels an extra hour, it just adjusts our clocks. Even if we didn't have daylight savings in Australia we'd still have the same amount of daylight hours.
I think he knows that. What he means is you get an extra hour on daylight in the evenings when most homes are at their peak of power usage. The late sunshine really helps to extend solar input when you need it the most.
Here in W.A. And in Queensland we don’t brook that time Shift rubbish. Also back in Ruawai NZ they figured that the Cows wouldn’t play ball so they rejected daylight robbery there two. I lost a few birthday hours in NZ that they passed on to someone else six months away …
@@chrisbraid2907
your LOSS!
you lose one hour!
Ask the Queenslanders, the curtains will fade and the cows will get confused!
Awesome 👏
LFP batteries are an amazing upgrade to my 20 year old DIY solar system. They will outlive me. Solar generators charge for free and replaced my dollars per hour gasoline generators. Solar panels and batteries literally cost half as much this year over last. Wind turbine addition ahead.
Hi mate, in the UK we don't have to pay for smart meters (gas or electric). And the few I've had installed have only usually taken 2-3 weeks to install. I'm sure there maybe some fancy smart meters that you have to pay for but for basic input/output meters they are FOC.
Great videos. Keep up the good work
Happy to see that you're doing great.
Thank you!
Hi Sam most people don’t have a house big enough to fit 26 kW on the roof. The average is between 5.5 kW and 8 kW can fit on a roof in Sydney and if you’re lucky you might fit 10 kW.
@gregwatling4041 if you mount East West, you have both sides of the saddle roof you can put panels on, compared to one North side
@@ttkddry I understand what Sam has done. He has a house with a really long big roof facing east west, most homes in Sydney and around Australia won’t fit large solar arrays,they are small homes with smaller roofs and your cramming on solar panels wherever you can fit them.
@@gregwatling4041 I am trying to understand what you are typing above but the grammar makes no sense. He has a big roof facing E/W, so instead of adding 10kWpeak on the North side; he has 13 kWpeak on the E and on another 13 kWpeak on the W side
@@ttkddry that’s what happens when you don’t check your voice to text.
His roof is not the average configuration for a home in Australia. He has a very large roof.
I have 5.3 kW on the roof and they’re five years old. I think I can fit about 8 kW now if I update to more modern Bi-facial panels but they’re facing north and west.
What I’m saying is you can only optimise your own roof. Sam’s roof means nothing to anyone else.
I’ve had my system for almost 5 years and only because feeding tariff started off at .21c a kilowatt hour and then reduced to .16c a kilowatt hour then the .12c a kilowatt hour then to 5 cents a kilowatt hour and now I’m back up to 7 cents a kilowatt hour by the end of this year I should have payback then,but anyone putting in a system now won’t get payback for 10 years unless the feeding tariff goes back up again, in some parts of the grid you’re actually being charged 1.2 cents a kilowatt hour to feed your excess back into the grid.
@@gregwatling4041 Unless you are with a wholesale supplier (like I am), FiT is useless these days. I only have a small north facing roof, so 6.4kWh is my max, but it is still over sized for my 5kW inverter. However, you can speed up your payback by not sending power to the grid at all, just dump it all into your EV instead. I do this almost every day (but I'm also home almost every day because I'm retired). My Tesla Model Y is virtually completely sun powered and totally FREE (except when I go on long trips like from Melb-Cairns-Melb) which cost me AU$380 for 7500km of charging (compared to petrol costing about $1600 to $2300 in our old Kia 1.4 litre). If you deduct the petrol savings you will pay off your panels in no time... Don't have an EV yet? Check out the used prices... I've seen Tesla model 3's for as low as $27k ! (OK it does have 200,000km on the clock, but that's irrelevant with a Tesla). It should be good for at least 500,00km at least. People just don't know how cheap they can be.
www.carsales.com.au/cars/details/2019-tesla-model-3-standard-range-plus-auto/SSE-AD-16823240/
You should have relocated the older panels to shade your hot summer roof.
Do not dump them.
Trying to stop heat into your roof on long hot days or remove built up heat is not easy.
More panels for low winter light is handy. 😊😊😊
They should change the name of them from Solar Panels to Light Panels, they only need light to work, the more light the more power (direct sunlight)
Fasting is used for starving the body of glucose and carbohydrates upon which cancer feeds. A concept known as the Warburg effect. Fasting can reduce blood sugar levels, which may limit the availability of glucose for cancer cells. When the body is deprived of carbohydrates, it enters a state of ketosis. Always consult a healthcare professional before making significant changes to your diet.
Yes I've seen studies that say this, it also helps the chemo attack the C, if they can manage to fast into ketosis before treatment and then during treatment (once it is in their bloodstream) eat some sugar which BTW the C craves, the cells open up to accept the glucose and the chemo like a Trojan horse/magic bullet enters the heart of the cells.
My 23 neighbor refused to get any medical treatment when he had cancer and took advice about fasting wellbeing etc. I told him he should go get it cut out now. he is dead now
East-west (or even just west) facing is definitely better these days. Supposedly only ~15% less total output. Gets some production (and therefore less import) into the evening peak - which is getting more ToU price hikes these days (enabled by the smart meter). Fewer imports for brekky and dinner. Crank the AC until the sun goes down, pre-cool the house and need none after that, etc. I have never managed to max out midday production going pretty much free to the grid (often into negative wholesale priced market).
Could you please show us the figures explaining all the capital costs, installation cost,running costs, discounted income on the total outlay say at 5% over the lifetime of the unit and any other expenses you have outland or expect to. All against the saving in electricity your unit is capable of including any degradation of efficiency the pannels might have very. Please don't leave anything out we want to see if what you say is really true.
Tom
Exactly. 14 months after installing solar and crunching numbers, I realised that it was false economy.
People tend to focus on the bill and not on the entire cost of the system. Factor in a loan on the panels and you also have to offset interest payments.
I would have been better of investing the $10k elsewhere.
I also have changed provider to Origin and have the EV Power up plan. 8c per kwh to charge my Tesla Model 3. The single biggest saving across the board making the solar negligible.
Glad you pointed out these very important costs, that factor into the overall equation!
Nice
Thanks
I only have a 4 kWp system (with battery) and have not paid an electricity bill in the two and a half years since they were installed.
In W-Europe the typical electricity cost consists >50% taxes of all kinds (governments) + the build and ‘maintenance of the grid (private companies).
When you install solar and deliver to the grid you are using it without contributing to the cost for the exploitation. Enter a fee for your solar deliveries to the grid.. this is completely different than getting 10$/day. There are ways and means to avoid this without going offgrid however buy not delivering to the grid when you have excess capacity.
The universe dose not register day light savings! But liked the video and you do a great job!
Thanks for that!
My dog had stage 4 cancer..did a ton of research...gave him the treatment regiment...was cured and lived another 5 years up till he was 13.
1:11 shows some dudes standing on the roof with their safety belt not attached to anything. seems to be very good safety standards there.
not the best practice on health and safety
Not very practical to do a complete installation with a harness connected. The standard practice is to install the anchor and use it when working close to the roof edge or when installing the lower row of panels.
Congrats on getting the new panels. Thought to ask if you get hail where you are, like _ever_? Is there any data on how well they standup to being pelted with hail? Rarre it may be, but I could envision it only taking one good hail storm to do some serious damage to any solar panels.
I had mine pelted with baseball / cricket ball sized hail. My car was written off, and the roof had thousands of dents, but the solar panels survived.
In Portugal the excendent energergy, now is almost zero.
Six panels and a batterie is 6000€, it is expensive
It confused my tiny brain when you said north facing roof????? Then I realised you are in Australia and the other way around, I have solar but it is now dropping off so fast in the wet dismal autumn, last two days flattened the battery to 24% and it needed charging from the mains again. I lost so much high output days because I am still not on pay in tariffs because the mains network and the supply company have dragged their feet to putting me on export tariff .
I like the thumbnail. The worker guy on the roof is about 13 feet tall compared to the garage door 😆
Bit strange you weren’t allowed to switch on your system before the smart meter was installed. With AGL/ausgrid, as long as you’ve informed them that you’ve installed, you are allowed to switch it on and can watch your old spinning dial meter go backwards.
You wil make a profit in the year 2050 enjoy your panels pro
so 14kw between 1120-1300 so 35kwh just for 2.5hrs and a minimum of 9kw between 0820-1640 so minus the 2.5hrs you have 59kwh on back end of winter but was more like spring so should be at about 50% of summer peak so watch summer breach 200kwh daily
I'd love to have solar power plus power storage, but the cost of the batteries are just a tad too high. We really don't need lithium-ion batteries for back up, so batteries with far less expensive chemistry could be used for power storage at the home level.
Danke!
A great system.
I’ve got the same solar system and app. Shame that a lot of the energy is feedin and for 1/4 of the price you buy it for on the same day. But until we have a battery, that power is spare and this is better than nothing
Lots of people cured cancer through fasting and carnivore diet, can view their stories on UA-cam ❤ great you shared that
Interesting the installer commented that black panels absorb heat better so they’re more efficient. Photovoltaics are less efficient when hot. They’re tested at 25°C but heated above that temp can reduce efficiency by 10-25%.
I have the same problem that you have. My house faces south west, so I need to put panels on two sides. My first quote was 55k for battery and solar and it will take 10 years to brake even.I am going to keep trying to get more quotes.
Just install solar for now then update the system to include battery storage at a later date.
Not connected to grid solar systems are easy to DIY. A DIY 1000 watt expandable starter solar system, battery, charge controller, combiner box wiring and AC inverter and battery costs about $2500 US to produce free green energy for life. All are expandable. A 2000 watt system might cost about $4000. Sizing the system and determining whether this system will ever be grid connected would be two starting points.
Surprised you have not used bifacial panels Sam....? Glass both sides gives much longer life to the panels...?
Nice looking panels. Are you going to get batteries? With the cost of Electric over there you should have great savings. The Induction cooktops are a game changer, very efficient.
I’m waiting to check, but they say even north panels can perform in cloudy conditions because diffuse light absorbs well
It's not about sunlight Viking. It's about daylight. That's why this technology works in the glum UK climate for example. But more of direct sunlight will indeed generate more power..
Is there a lower threshold?
Like my eyes can see a bit at night, there are still a few photons from the moon or whatever else. Does the electricity production of solar panels simply drop to a very low essentially worthless level, or is there a threshold at which it actually drops to exactly zero?
@@SigFigNewton I'd be amazed if any solar panel could use just a few photons to generate any power at all. In fact... my inverter is the limiting factor. It shuts down after a certain level of input (what it is I don't know).
@@greghudson9717 ok, so there’s definitely at least one component that causes nothing to be produced below a certain level. Thanks.
5:20 Light makes electricity, not heat.
Heat reduces performance of the panel.
But hot black radiates heat the fastest, loose heat the fastest.
I often wonder if a small cooling fan under the panels would help remove the rising hot air under the panels.
Just a comment.
Make sure you have enough cooling ventilation under your panels if possible.
Sam you definitely need to a do a deep dive after 1 year to gibe you very clear picture of cost spent verses cost saved
Please 🙏
i bought the pieces one or two at a time, installed the system myself...yes i made some mistakes, bought two things i didn't need at the time, but need one of them now. bought used solar
panels that put out half of what they should put out...still expensive. I could have bought 4 new panels that were really powerful for about $2000 and have more power now...but I didn't have
the money. It's really hard to buy 2 panels at a time that won't break your bank and are powerful. I now have 26 panels that cost me about $3000 instead of six panels that would have cost
me about the same and put out the same amount of power. I think the most important thing you can buy first is figure out how power you need to charge an EV car. Buy all your equipment
to fit that figure...batteries, panels, all in one charge controller/inverter. I bought a battery charge controller that is nice, cost a lot and handles quite a bit of power...IT turns out I should have
waited to buy an all in one charger/inverter with twice or three times the power, puts out 220vac split phase and accepts 2 sets of solar panels that you can add to. My system ended up costing
me about $12,000, but would have cost me about $40,000 to $50,000 to buy and install. In my area a smart meter doesn't help...the power company charges only for how many Kwh you use,
not when you use them. So it doesn't matter when you charge and when you use power. The main reason I installed solar power is to provide power when the grid goes down. Sometimes
for 3 days, sometimes 1 day, and a couple times for nine days. My system will work for two days and then I have to start a generator to charge the batteries while also using power.
I donate money to the utility to provide wind power to all of us. I donate money (pay) for a street light at night that I don't have to. Those two payments are about 1/3 of my bill in the
summer.
This is awesome! Congrats. Question: Are there any backup battery systems that work with smart home automation (Tread over Matter since it's the new standard)? For instance, if the power goes out and the batteries are now powering the house, then the automation turns off ALL non-essential lights, appliances, etc... adjusts heat or air con, and whatever other automations you can think of.
Here in Florida they only pay us $30 usd per megawatt. Sam what are they paying you?
When are you going to get batteries?
When he buys an EV
@@ttkddry coming soon
@robcooper5813 he ordered an Xpeng G6, what is the delivery date?
@@ttkddry 6 weeks
PSA: do your homework on resinc solar.
out of the 3 quotes i got they were 15k more than the one and 10k more for the other and the equipment was on par (think other quotes actually used slightly better gear) and these were good local installers. they’ll tell you it’s all in their warranties and in their service and i’ll say i don’t buy it.
if you go by finn from solar quotes’s own definition of ‘rip-off merchants’ resinc seem to fit the bill.
of course i could be missing something, so do you’re own homework.
installed one in my home too, 13.2kw
Nice 👍
How much did it cost?
Now you just need storage. Sungold has some really nice options these days. You can save yourself some money if you order them online and just have the installer come in and hook them up if you are uncomfortable with that.
Those guys have safety harnesses without a tether. What’s the point?
Just installed my solar and it was a good decision in my life soon to install a power wall 3.
your eyes pick up light reflecting of objects., so if you can see you solar panels it means light is still hitting them, which is why its still generating small amount of power.
How much did your system cost?, what do you get paid per kw feeding back into the grid?
Energy Locals have fallen off a cliff, just like Powershop. If you can get OVO then that’s your best shot or AGL EV plan. If you have plenty of battery then Amber might be worth a go.
Let us know when you get your battery hooked up
What's the system cost and which inverter did you use?
Good video.
I believe Octopus Energy are up and running in Australia. If they are, they're the company to be with imo...innovative, with great products. They are a UK energy provider, and we've been with them for over 5 yrs.
We have solar, battery and EV.....during the winter when the average electricity price was north of 30p/kWh, the 'Intelligent Octopus Go' tariff, gave us (and still does) 6 hours between 11.30pm and 5.30am at 7p/kWh. As you can imagine, we filled up and ran everything we could during this period.
15p/kWh export.
Check them out.
I'm on the same tariff with Octopus as yourself @cbromley562. And yes Sam I do generate electricity on cloudy and overcast days here in the UK.
smart meter is installed by the electricity lines company who owns the power lines not the electricity sellers.
Yeah I thought that was odd to, I make a point of it to get the metering upgrade done for my customers, you only need the NMI and the retailers email or phone number etc or fill in the online portal for them. So I don't know why these installers don't? I've been on the "Solar Coaster" nearly 30 years, I've never left the customer to get the metering done unless they are with a retailer that specifically prohibits a third party contact in which case I would sit with them and get it done.
Not in Victoria. There is a govt approved list of sparkies licensed to install them.
@@mzmadmanyes this is an odd one, same deal the PV installer has the ball rolling on the meter upgrade once you’ve placed the deposit & the install date is set.
Tesla power wall 3 has integrated inverter
Why on earth did you not install a Powerwall at the same time? I had solar and a powerwall 2 installed in May, been off-grid until last couple of days, due to the shite weather here in the UK. The Powerwall and App just does everything, fantastic! The local power supply connection and payments for my surplus was a bit of a problem but got it sorted eventually. Only have a 5.25 kWh but so far this suffices and have sent my surplus of 1.2 mWh to the grid.
Bout time this video made it presence felt
Which provider are you with for a solar plan that’s giving you around $10 a day for feed in tariffs. On 80 to 100kw a day? Please
Hi Sam, I have a 10K system at our home. I keep seeing the threat of being charged within a year or 2 for exporting to grid, I am now down to 3.5 Cents/Kw. Is this true that we will be charged to export excess to grid, can you confirm this or is it garbage? Regards, Garry.
Nice one cheers mate
Any time!
The solar panels look amazing.....
In New Mexico, it took our local electrical utility (PNM) almost 6 months to install our smart meter. Very frustrating.
Hey mate. What size system did you install? I have 5kw system in Melbourne, how do you make $70week? We get $6cents per kw which I added today was 30cents for 5.48kw produced
What battery do you have? Solar is worthless during the day. Wholesale feed-in is current -6c/kWh so solar PV export to the grid has to be curtailed or it costs you money. That’s because there is not enough storage. Get a battery and sell your solar after dark.
Hi Sam You are a big fan of Tony Seba. Well it seems like you have not followed his bell curve formular for solar / battery instalations. Or have you? Maybe on an average home all one needs is maybe 12-14 panels and a 10-15Kw storage battery. However if you have calculated to add in your future power consumption of charging your Xpeng G6EV during the day and at what rate, then? I can still feel you still have too many panels. It would be good for you to do a video on the rational of the system you are aming at, with the 26 panels generating 26Kw/h at the peak.
Whats with installer guys wearing the untethered harnesses? Bit of a trip hazrd imo.
How much is the payment on your system? $10/ day income, how much out go ?
The straw light energy is about 10 % of your peak. So when you have 450 Wp there come about 45 W from the modules even on cloudy days or durin sundown or sunup.
There are even modules available which can catch IR light so the still producing a little amount during the night.
Your company just did clamp your modules straight to the roof. This isn't the best solution for doing this because this system fixes the modules and gives them mechanical stress because of temperature changes. A better solution is to have a fixed frame to the roofe where the modules just layed in loosely and so the can make their little movements with temperature. The result you will see after 20 years. With this clam system the glass of the modules will get tiny breaks which make the modules blind with time, so they will produce less and less power. Modules with the inlay system are still working fine mostly even after 30 years because they had no thermal stress from fixation straight to the roof.
Of cours the inlay system is a bit more expensive that the cheap clamping to the roof. But at the end it is a reliable invest, because of the so much increased lifespan of the modules.
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Good for you.
But payback period for solar is very different in different countries.
It can be 20+ years.
1.5 years for me here in Australia.
How much was the total cost Sam?
UK sun isn't always that good but it would be good after time
And yet here in Queensland, the Labor party have passed laws to now tax households with solar if that solar feeds into the grid. I will switch it off before I pay one more cent in tax to our criminal politicians.
Waiting for mine to be fitted in the UK. Longi all-black, and Tesla PowerWall3.
Then battery expansion next February when Tesla release them in the UK.
As someone else said, Octopus Energy as my provider….
Why not try Red Energy?
Evening mate
sungrow inverters are crappy
How much is the installation cost?
Smart meter should have been taken care of by the solar installer
I want to hear what he done with his cancer treatment!!!
what panels are these?
Why did you get rid of the old panels? Seven years is the payback time.
The problem is that in Australia the STC installation rebate system invalidates upgrading most solar systems. If you install a bigger new inverter and new panels, older solar panels that are fully operational and safe (but have dropped off the latest approved list of solar panels) cannot be connected to the new inverter and allow the upgrade to be eligible for the STC rebate. This forces many upgrades to not really be an upgrade but a total removal of the system. Luckily there is a booming diy projects market where people can use these old panels and put them on a vehicle or shed.
It would be great for the environment if a law was passed which outlawed the dumping of solar panels in landfill and encouraged re-use and recycling.
You live in Stockton?
26 kW! That’s a lot of power (I have 10 kW). You really need a battery pack.
Quite windy there. Are you going to get yourself a wind turbine to make a bit of electricity at night and in the winter?
I wish I could 😞
From $37K to $45K that's the minimum range of profit return every week I thinks it's not a bad one for me, now I have enough to pay bills and take care of my family.
It's either we invest OR get rid of
the Electoral College and let We the People of the United States of America choose our own leaders!
Which unfortunately takes 2/3 of congressional support in each state in order to enact
It would require a constitutional amendment, so it's more something to work towards than something likely to happen any time soon I will invest for the tomorrow.
whomsoever created the Electorate College was a whimp, certainly. Haha just cash 70k from crypto 💯
RIGHT!
Vote ALL Republicans out of office NOW and FOREVER!
Bye-Bye Electoral College.