Comment on Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 days ago
It’s true for me, 6.6kw solar system, 10kwh battery, I pretty much never run out of of power now, my grid usage is background noise
Comment on Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 days ago
It’s true for me, 6.6kw solar system, 10kwh battery, I pretty much never run out of of power now, my grid usage is background noise
Fjdybank@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Impressive. Can you share your setup costs and general location?
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 days ago
Australia but it’s not really applicable to other places, we now have strong gov incentives to get solar (STC’s) and batterys (battery rebate):
…com.au/home-batteries-and-rebates-what-you-need-…
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/…/105257914
I also live here: www.qhatlas.com.au/…/Qld sunshine state.jpg
So plenty of sun compared to countries way up north
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’d be curious as well. I’m looking at batteries but my consumption is 80% in winter when whatever the capacity I install I’ll end up using the network :-/
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 days ago
do you have time of use charges?
if it’s more expensive to use power at night people are filling up during the day and using it at night, bit of electricity arbitrage
a4ng3l@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s the reversal currently, off peak after 10pm and the weekends. Definitely possible to edge that way during wintertime but the cost differential isn’t so big so the roi is definitely not great.