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How much do you pay for electricity?
For many years my family and I lived on off grid solar power which I installed myself. It was a very positive experience.
Since we moved to a remote area of Victoria 11 years ago we have been back on the mains. Around 8 years ago I installed a grid connect system on our house and six other neighbours properties. These were the days of the Premium Feed in Tariff so we are are all still getting around 67 cents/kwH for what we put into the grid which is fantastic.
However the power we buy from the grid is I think pretty expensive and probably about to get worse. Currently we pay 35.3 c/kwH peak and 15.67 c/kwH off peak.
So now we are seriously thinking of going off the grid again.
I would be very interested to know what others are paying. I would also like to know if we are ripped off for power we buy because we are on the Premium FIT.
I recently bought a Pipit 500 device which talks to our smart meter and it is quite alarming to see your money draining away when any power hungry device is on and the sun is not shining!
Ian
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