Guru
Joined: 13/10/2014
Location: AustraliaPosts: 1992
| Posted: 11:09pm 11 Sep 2025 |
Keeping the grid until the 15 year old high In-feed tariffs are shut down in 2028, the In feed connection pays for itself covering infrastructure fees and the credit is also paying for the off-grid system I've built.
I hear they are intending to count any Solar In-feed payments as income, don't have a time frame, and of course charge you for any In-Feed at certian times to pay for them having to install Batteries reserves due to the amount of home Solar feeding the Grid at certian times of the day.
I found out that I can suspend the Mains for 12 months or so without going through a new connection inspection. At this stage the plan is to drop the mains connection as soon as they start charging us or forcing a smart meter, then remove the old In-feed system and replace the panels to add another 5 or 6kW to the Off-grid system.
This morning at 5.30AM I had over 70% state of charge, it's now 8.45 AM and despite early morning loads of 5 to 9kW the SOC is now at 85%, and I'm only charging the Banks to around 95% these days.
I'm amazed at these batteries, some are coming up to 5 years old, Fake EVE Cells, badly assembled (commercial batteries) and were abused by running fully charged for long periods of time etc, a few years back I stripped them and rebuilt the recovered Cells correctly as nominal 48v units.
_
Edited 2025-09-12 10:43 by KeepIS