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| Robert763:
--- Quote from: Zucca on July 07, 2022, 01:25:10 pm --- --- Quote from: Zucca on July 02, 2022, 12:50:12 am ---I knew it :palm: I will try one more time, but they are forcing me to go off grid... 1) I do not want to buy at the double price I am selling back to them 2) I want to put how much panels I want on my roof in my property 3) Yes the base price for a bidirectional meter is 16$ instead or the regular 12$ each month, and recently a power company in the area bumped it up to 30$/month just because. --- End quote --- Finally I talked yesterday with Mark a nice eng from the power company: As long I do not feed back energy from my home to the grid: 1) No need to change my contract or install a bidirectional meter. My base price will stay the same 12$/month. Will cost less than an emergency generator with maintenance included. 2) There is no more the 100% energy offset concept. I am allowed to get as much power I want from my roof. 3) Only an anti-islanding, quick disconnect device is required. Basically since I will stay passive, what happen behind the meter is not power company beer. Sharing all the above with all 3 solar companies I am talking to, they are all going "Oh Oh, this is interesting and awesome... thanks for sharing..." :popcorn: --- End quote --- Well that is exactly what I thought the situation was. I said nothing because maybe your state or whatever regulations were different. It certainly makes sense. |
| Robert763:
--- Quote from: m k on July 07, 2022, 03:00:32 pm --- --- Quote from: Zucca on July 07, 2022, 01:25:10 pm --- --- Quote from: Zucca on July 02, 2022, 12:50:12 am ---I knew it :palm: I will try one more time, but they are forcing me to go off grid... 1) I do not want to buy at the double price I am selling back to them 2) I want to put how much panels I want on my roof in my property 3) Yes the base price for a bidirectional meter is 16$ instead or the regular 12$ each month, and recently a power company in the area bumped it up to 30$/month just because. --- End quote --- Finally I talked yesterday with Mark a nice eng from the power company: As long I do not feed back energy from my home to the grid: 1) No need to change my contract or install a bidirectional meter. My base price will stay the same 12$/month. Will cost less than an emergency generator with maintenance included. 2) There is no more the 100% energy offset concept. I am allowed to get as much power I want from my roof. 3) Only an anti-islanding, quick disconnect device is required. Basically since I will stay passive, what happen behind the meter is not power company beer. Sharing all the above with all 3 solar companies I am talking to, they are all going "Oh Oh, this is interesting and awesome... thanks for sharing..." :popcorn: --- End quote --- What was the beginning? I've not followed it. I've wondered many times why people are so keen to selling their excess. How many life times it'll take to pay that hardware back. Here I'd probably have to pay more /kWh if my usage goes under some electric heating level but that is probably all. Then I read how somebody is selling watt hours. I don't get it. Though I do know that unauthorized panels are or used to be a big no-no in Spain. My understanding is also that it includes all types of uses and that the reason is overall used grid power. --- End quote --- Well in some countries you were / are paid MORE for the power fed into the grid than you pay for power taken out of it. Sometimes a lot more. This is of course paid for by a "green" tax on all the other consumers. I've often wondered if anyone out there was charging batteries during the night and feeding the grid in the day to make money.... |
| TERRA Operative:
--- Quote from: Robert763 on July 07, 2022, 03:34:20 pm ---Well in some countries you were / are paid MORE for the power fed into the grid than you pay for power taken out of it. --- End quote --- This is the case here in Japan, well for me at least. The rebates are shrinking over time as they do, but from the point you sign the contract your rates are locked in for 10 years, regardless how the price drops over time. I don't know the exact numbers, but with the almost 10kW of panels we have we often end up paying nothing for electricity and get a deposit in our account. Mostly during summer when the sun is shiny. Which reminds me, I need to get around to designing a single-axis tilt mechanism to allow me to optimise the panel angle over the year.... Any ideas for panels mounted on a slight angle on galvanised C-channels on a flat roof? :) |
| Saskia:
it is nearly impossible to find someone to throw pv onto the roof around here. Prices have gone thru the same. Wish me luck, sometime next week a company agreed to come over to have a quick look. As energy prices are going thru the roof thanks to our know it all government (Cheetah, Lassie and Flipper would do a better job than German politicians right now) I am running out of options. FML. *cough* bloody bronchitis. And the year is about over, too, which means I am running out of time with my projects. |
| bd139:
So sitting here cleaning test gear again. Anyone got any ideas what might remove this horrible idiot graffiti on the panel? Isopropyl doesn’t touch it. |
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