Brewers With Solar Power

[Phoney]

I would like to see these come to oz. put this turbine on the roof and generate during the night. I'm on the top of a hill and think it would do ok. If only we had a govt that would support these ideas better....

http://gizmodo.com/eureka-a-whisper-quiet-wind-turbine-based-on-archimede-1582606998

Beercus

Would be great if you lived on a headland.

Be interested to know how long they stay 'whisper quiet' for - until the bearings develop a squeak.

 

[Yob]

So now I've been drilling into power usage for a bit and have access to the data, I thought it'd be interesting to see what the cost of brewing might be.. On Saturday, I set up my HLT and MT with HEX to turn on at 4.30am (ish) so it'd be ready for mash out when I woke up.



the total cost from that time zone was $3.88 which isn't as bad as I'd thought it might be.

this has sweet F.A to do with solar power as such, just thought it a good place to put it

B)

 

[zarniwoop]

We're completely on electricity here so a solar setup would be perfect. given that I work from home and the missus and kids are home all day too, I even went to the extent of tracking the shade across our roof to see if it was viable. What killed it for me was that I'd need to remove the big gum that's right next to our house or else I'd risk damaging panels with dead fall, that added another $5K to the price which made the payback period too long to justify it.

 

[yum beer]

We're completely on electricity here so a solar setup would be perfect. given that I work from home and the missus and kids are home all day too, I even went to the extent of tracking the shade across our roof to see if it was viable. What killed it for me was that I'd need to remove the big gum that's right next to our house or else I'd risk damaging panels with dead fall, that added another $5K to the price which made the payback period too long to justify it.

You are gonna pay for lectric forever.........payback period, most likely shorter and worth it.

I put 8kw on the roof last spring, cost $11,000, paying back $12,500 over 30 months, currently saving around $800 a quarter.
Current bill plus repayments is $40 a week cheaper then I was paying before, less than 2 years its paid off and I'm saving a motza....even more allowing for price increase.

Brainless equation in my opinion......Solar good, no solar no good.

 

[wynnum1]

We're completely on electricity here so a solar setup would be perfect. given that I work from home and the missus and kids are home all day too, I even went to the extent of tracking the shade across our roof to see if it was viable. What killed it for me was that I'd need to remove the big gum that's right next to our house or else I'd risk damaging panels with dead fall, that added another $5K to the price which made the payback period too long to justify it.

$5K how big is the tree.

 

[Yob]

I put 8kw on the roof last spring,

got 3 phase?

 

[AndrewQLD]

Just got our first full bill back from Ergon, $195.00. Same time last year we paid $704.00 so I'm very happy.
What I am not happy about is that Ergon have just introduced a service charge of $85.00 a quarter so in reality my actual usage cost was $110.00 for the quarter.

 

[Yob]

$1.35 a day with diamond energy, better rates and FIT though

 

[yum beer]

got 3 phase?

yes

 

[Yob]

Nice, I wanted to fill my roof with a 15kw system but sadly, no 3 phase.

 

[yum beer]

you Victorians have it good.
Diamond energy would have given me 30c feed in Victoria but here in the state of gold thread and uv free sunshine they only pay that on your first 5kw a day, but wanted to charge an extra 2 1/2 grand for the install, that's 8 plus years to balance up, not this little black duck.

 

[yum beer]

Nice, I wanted to fill my roof with a 15kw system but sadly, no 3 phase.

You probably couldn't justify the 15kw anyway Yob.
Energy masters only allowed me 8kw because of the size of my bills, they are really cracking down on people making money off the feed in.
I'm just pissed I didn't put them on when we built the house, among everything else just didn't factor it in.

 

[Yob]

If we had 15kw, we'd use most of it, it's why I'm looking at battery storage now.

We use plenty and our bills were huge prior, getting better but I've got a ways to go before I'll be happy

 

[yum beer]

If we had 15kw, we'd use most of it,

Serious.....

 

[Yob]

All those lights don't run themselves

 

[yum beer]

I was running about $1600 a quarter, basically cut that in half, a bit better in summer.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

I did look further into the battery wall, only useful during a power cut to run minimal lighting.

 

[Yob]

WEL, did you look at the charging options? I need about a 30kwh system running at a maximum %50 discharge, the point really is that it charges both by the solar AND only on off peak, so essentially not using any peak power at all and only taking grid power to charge the batteries which you use during peak.

In my case, changing the rate from something stupid like. 34kwh to. 14kwh still using essentially the same energy but being charged a fuckload less for it.

The sunnyboy Island (controller) is 6 frikkin K on its own though...

 

[wide eyed and legless]

My computer is down at the moment Yob as soon as I get it cleaned I will find the article I was reading , I still think the Hydrogen system could be the go, even though it works off natural gas the use of the gas is extremely efficient.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

I think the one I was reading was the 2kw Power wall here is more information about the other systems, as it says in this article it pays to remember that electricity prices will keep going up.

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2015/05/the-winners-and-losers-in-teslas-battery-plan-for-the-home/