Solar quotes for our house

[Grandad]

I'm pretty sure that Oldtrack has never been a licenced electrician ever.

Are you serious? If true, I find that amazing. He probably holds the title of the single most consistently irritating person I have ever come across on any forum regarding any subject matter.

Jim

[Dot]

I'm pretty sure that Oldtrack has never been a licenced electrician ever.

Are you serious? If true, I find that amazing. He probably holds the title of the single most consistently irritating person I have ever come across on any forum regarding any subject matter.

Jim

[BernieQ2]

I'm pretty sure that Oldtrack has never been a licenced electrician ever.

Are you serious? If true, I find that amazing. He probably holds the title of the single most consistently irritating person I have ever come across on any forum regarding any subject matter.

Jim

There's one other but he don't post there anymore ?
Bernie .

[Newcastle George]

My latest update: I received a call from Energy Australia complaints yesterday afternoon who advised me that she would look into my case and endeavour to accelerate the installation of a smart meter.

She called me again this morning and advised that it should be installed 12/7 and that we would be given a credit of $200 on our electricity account. I requested an email confirming all that was said and was advised that one would be sent. An email was not received within 90 minutes so I contacted her again and was told that she would try to send it before she knocks off this afternoon.

George

[BruceS]

You're keeping us in suspenders George ............ Did she ring or did she NOT ring?
Can we open the betting please? lol

[Newcastle George]

Bruce, received the email at 4:52pm but offered a credit of $100. I replied stating that during the phone discussion $200 was offered following which apology given and agreed that it should have said $200.

The email stated "Please be advised we have organised meter exchange with Vector on 12/07/2019

I will follow up on this case before the schedule meter exchange and the case will remain open until the meter exchange is completed"

George

[Newcastle George]

Smart Meter finally installed but not without drama!! Installer arrived at 8am but found that the Isolation Point had been incorrectly installed. As I was not at home Julie had to search high and low to locate phone number of electrician who had done the job. It was then organised for him to rectify the problem and in the meantime the Smart Meter installer left to carry out other installations. The electrician didn't arrive to correct his error untill 12:30 and the SM installer not until 1:30 with job completed at 3pm.

Solar installation now scheduled to begin at 7am next Wednesday 17/7.

George

[Greynomad]

HHmmmmm,

"Huston, we have a problem."

Solars installed in December '18.

First bill thereafter was $118... reasonable, and lower than without solars, but most of the billing period was pre-solar.

Second bill was $500+ Waaay above what our pre-solar bills were! (More than double!)
Solargain (installer) investigated & complained to supplier.
Next bill was credit a of $5.

Just received our latest bill. Higher than pre-solar winter bill with electric under-floor heating running!

Methinks there is another complaint in the offing on Monday....

[T1 Terry]

Ahhh.... the joys of trying to sell ice to Eskimos, you'd think after all this time they would have sorted the bugs out of feed in tariffs and grid supplied power, but there would need to be a desire to sort the problems in the first place. Do you really think an electrical reseller wants to actually pay you money or give you credits for the energy you supplied into the grid? They will continue to make it as hard as possible until you give up and move to another reseller, then the games start all over again.

I guess this is why we get so many enquiries regarding going off grid where people already have had solar installed. We had a lot of people wanting us to look at their solar set up and tell them why the bills were the same or higher than before they had the solar installed, but that is a whole different field that we aren't interested in getting into, so we said no. We might yet move into the solar rewire and battery based storage to take people off grid. Asked an SA Power engineer and he said there were no penalties for disconnecting from the grid, just very expensive to get back on if the premises has been powered off grid for any length of time. They still seem to think they are the only one who can supply a 24/7 supply with any sort of reliability. I wonder how long it will remain that way once people start to drop off the grid in large numbers.

T1 Terry

[Eddy]

I guess this is why we get so many enquiries regarding going off grid where people already have had solar installed.

I heard of people going completely off grid but must be hard to cater for all weather conditions
We have had our 6.5kw system since mid 2017 ( I have kept daily records of power generated - sad, I know), during months of November to February (in Perth) typically daily 30 to 44 Kw but a cloudy day will reduce to 18kw, during Perth winter typical max of 28kw easily drop to 10kw with a bit of rain etc. What prompted this post was we had a couple weeks of bad weather (cloudy & rain) and one day a lowest ever daily output of 1.59Kw
I guess if your off grid would have heaps more panels but must be a delicate balancing exercise