wattmatters
Solar Wizard
Simple fact is the variance from place to place with:
- local and other regulations
- applicable tariffs
- system set up costs, whatever that may be (PV, storage, inverters, charge controllers, approvals, labour, metering etc)
- each property's unique production capacity (location, space for solar PV, orientation, seasonal variability, climate)
- each property's unique energy consumption (total and consumption patterns over a day, and seasonally)
just means the optimal scenario in each case can be quite different.
Layer on top what premium we each subjectively assign to other intangibles (such as level of energy independence, enjoyment in learning, designing and/or building, the hobby factor, a reduced reliance on fossil energy etc) and everyone will have a different "optimal" outcome.
The variance with these combination of factors across the USA seems to be quite large. The variance is much less across Australia.
I'm sure timselectric is optimising to suit their household's unique set of parameters.
- local and other regulations
- applicable tariffs
- system set up costs, whatever that may be (PV, storage, inverters, charge controllers, approvals, labour, metering etc)
- each property's unique production capacity (location, space for solar PV, orientation, seasonal variability, climate)
- each property's unique energy consumption (total and consumption patterns over a day, and seasonally)
just means the optimal scenario in each case can be quite different.
Layer on top what premium we each subjectively assign to other intangibles (such as level of energy independence, enjoyment in learning, designing and/or building, the hobby factor, a reduced reliance on fossil energy etc) and everyone will have a different "optimal" outcome.
The variance with these combination of factors across the USA seems to be quite large. The variance is much less across Australia.
I'm sure timselectric is optimising to suit their household's unique set of parameters.
) have investments and formed companies that will profit from the adoption of green energy while pushing for legislation to force the general public to adopt green energy with huge taxpayer subsidies. It's all a big money grab. The government goes along because of a few reasons, it keeps the economy moving, no different than building the interstate highway system, before that rail, the adoption of the Web and those excesses, the housing boom of the 2000's, the shale oil and gas boom, and now green energy. The other reason is those with inside knowledge of what legislation, rules and regulations that will be passed and enforced have positioned themselves to profit from it.
