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My neighbor across the street has solar panels. I chatted with him once, and he brought them up. I asked if he got the battery wall too, and he said no, but seemed slightly miffed. Then, he said his electric bill was $60/mo. I probably didn't seem suitably impressed, I didn't tell him mine is $50/mo. and I don't have solar panels, I just don't use much electricity. I wanted to ask whether he was leasing them, or took out a loan for them, but didn't.
I think the only way residential solar panels make sense is to have a battery, especially in the winter when we get a lot less sun, and most people are at work during the day, so a lot of residential electrical use is after sunset. That's why I asked, but I didn't say any of that to him.
Inserting context (especially that much at once) is rather difficult TBF.
Where I live most electric is air conditioning.
And what the hell else are you gonna do with that space? Do they get in the way of your rooftop garden?
Nah. I'm in Australia and our electricity bills have been slaughtered by two thirds. We used to have a powerpal (it died, ironically for the following) and even midwinter there would be huge chunks of the day where it registered 0 meter use - we are literally powering everything in the house just via solar.
So even without a battery (they're 20k+) we've cut a large chunk of fossil fuels clean out of use. We also feed back into the grid - we get bugger all money for it, but that's not the point. The point is reduction of fossil fuelled power.
Money is the point for most people, I would think. Altruism doesn't pay the bills.
If you're at the point where you're selling excess, you're already not paying for electricity.
You may enjoy playing snide gotchas. I don't.
That sounds way nicer than the US. Even the high pressure sales guy said the math didn't math for our house. It's basically a 20 year loan to pay off the panels and even though we don't have many trees I guess our house is at the wrong angle? To break even we would have to make it to 20 years. To save we would have to keep it longer than that. But they were only warranteed for 10. No thanks.