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HeadsUp
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Posted: 04:04am 20 Jan 2010
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can anyone share their experiences with negotiating the best buy back rates for grid feed wind power ?

across australia there are variations in rate for residential producers ( under 10 kW generally )

http://www.energymatters.com.au/government-rebates/feedintar iff.php

does anybody know what the big wind farm guys are getting ( who may have connections and subsidies from govt )

talking systems of 30 kW plus
 
KarlJ

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Posted: 09:02am 20 Jan 2010
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30KW systems are lucky to get the rates we pay for power
so call it -14c/kw/hr
Luck favours the well prepared
 
Perry

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Posted: 09:20am 20 Jan 2010
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Great question.

9 cents/kW-hr in upstate NY
 
Perry

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Sorry, forgot to add that utilities get about 3 cents more than that through the production tax credit from the US gov.

Perry
 
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Posted: 01:32pm 20 Jan 2010
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kind of grateful for getting 60 cents per kwhr here up to 10 kW in NSW . just a pity they couldnt have also paid 40 cents or so for power above 10 kW , in Canberra they go up to 30 kW


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KarlJ

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Posted: 09:55pm 20 Jan 2010
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Thats the state where the bloody pollies live though, so everything must be better than the rest of the country.
Also its a cold miserable place with pollies everywhere so I guess its an incentive to "normal people" to go live there
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