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    To solar or not to solar

    Hi Simon My background is in large scale solar projects >10MW (10,000kW) and this world is different. Project success depends on the financial backing behind the company making the performance guarantees on the whole system (panels and inverters) or the bank will take a dim view of financing...
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    To solar or not to solar

    Worth investigating at the very least. Personally I'm focussing on putting in some batteries and getting off the grid completely because in WA we get no credit for avoiding network charges. Solar production only gets 7 cents but we are getting charged 25 cents for what we consume. Time...
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    To solar or not to solar

    Yes but don't forget you lose your capital completely after 15 or so years, depending on what you buy. The cheap stuff might last ten years if you're lucky (less for cheap inverters). The good stuff will likely get twenty five years. Worth paying a bit more in that context...
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    To solar or not to solar

    Marketing. Minor benefits but at the expense of an inverter that has fewer features. Grid companies are baulking at them as they are relatively dumb. Too early to tell whether they will win out on price, which is the most important issue. There is a wide variety in inverter and panel quality...
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