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O.T Carbon Tax v's PV ecomonic? but for who 16-Aug-2011 At 10:12:54 PM lacto

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My first systems arrays were made in australia in the now closed bp plant .My latest was made in china by the company set up by the australian trained ,denied financing to produce here so moved to china . The change in value of the aussie dollar and volume manufacture effctively has cut the cost to around 30 % of that 2and a half years ago . THE VICTORIAN PV feed back is capped at 100Mw capacity which is nearly reached so the need to build say a new gas turbine at a cost of around $200 M has been avoided and this would only be required on a few days of the year for a few hours , this is why power costs are going through the roof as the builders of these plants need a return on their investment , On many ocassions over the last few years I have fed power (around 4kw) back in at 60 cent when the going rate was well above this and up to a capped amount of $10.00 a kwh. A far bigger increase in electricity for us will be the result of the royal commision into the bushfires report which recommends placing SWR lines underground and other 22Kv line .Ted has guarenteed to implement this in full and has approved the first installment which will increase powercor costs from around $140 to $340 per connection . and spausnet will be a $300 a year increase , this will be over 3 years. 3 out of my 4 supplies are from SWR lines which to me dont appear to impose a fire risk in our area . Grid connected pv is economic at present with current feed back at what you actually pay for power ,but if no large demands say 5KW + demands then stand alone with battery storage is starting to look like it will be viable especially if you have to pay for the poles and transformer to connect . A neighbor paid $44000 just to get power to his boundary !! . To me probably the greatest thing is that people who install PV tend to become much more energy concious and certain energy time use concious which is good for reducing total demand on the grid . Why use power at 2 pm at 23.8 cents when you can get 60 if fed back and use that power at night for 9 cents