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Hi Snags - do you have your "Smart Meter" yet???

Have a 3kw system which is outputtin 16-17 kw a day at the moment. North facing in Perth.

any of you guys outputting to pvoutput at all?

http://www.pvoutput.org/list.jsp?id=867&sid=839

There is my system.

Hi All
After installing a 2.5Kw system in May this year our first bill, with the new meter ect, was from 11 Aug to 06 Oct at a charge of $ 116.35 CR. This looks great but as pensioners centerlink class this as income and reduce our pension by .50c in the dollar. So after spending $ 6290.00 to install this is no consideration or allowance given to this. Sorry about the grizzle about this but it is a pet gripe of mine.

Cheers GnomeMan

yep our government are scumbags

yes took about a month to get it .
The last bill was a full quarter with Solar PV and Water.

We got our meter a while ago, and got the paper work in just in time to get the 60C pay in price before our scumbag gov dropped it to 25C

You still get nearly $60 after tax and the guberment did give you about $6,000ish towards installation and your bills have disappeared and you will win a few extra $$s a week with the carbon tax rebate too.
Not even mentioning the green benefits.
Glass half full

Gnome, im not 100% familiar with the pensioner thing but I think at the end of the financial year you may get some of that back, as long as you dont earn any other $ for the year..

Received our quarterly account a few days ago - we owe $55.00.
Usually around $300.
Seems that since we put on Solar - our daily usage has dropped to around 9.2kWh (from 12 to 14kWh) - and we have returned to grid a daily average of 3kWh.
Average cost of electricity per day is $0.64.

I expect feed back to grid figures will be better on the next account.

Regards - ColinW