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Originally Posted by casstony
With a 3 or 4kw solar system being relatively cheap to buy these days, we need more panels on house roofs to take a bigger chunk out of that afternoon peak. Then when batteries become affordable we can smooth out the evening peak as well.
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Not gong to argue with that point. We have held off and held off and now that silly feed in tariffs are not distorting things and we can see the true nature of it all, I hope we can manage to install a decently sized system in the near future. It would be nice in the current context to be able to supply enough to at least cover our own aircon demand and be able to run that guilt free.
One aspect that most people seem to miss though is that a grid solar PV system generally shuts itself down when incoming mains fail (Safety measure so you do not have households backfeeding power into the grid when power workers are trying to work on it)
If I could find a system which would mostly cover our own demand year round, has compatibility with battery storage for when the battery systems become economically feasible and which disconnects itself from the mains and keeps on working in case of a mains fail I would be rapt.