{"id":1517,"date":"2012-04-30T22:20:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T11:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2017-10-25T10:27:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:57:39","slug":"pay-as-you-go-solar-arrives-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/pay-as-you-go-solar-arrives-in-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay-As-You-Go Solar Arrives In Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PAYG Solar Too?<\/p><\/div>\n

Have you considered installing a domestic solar system but have been put off by the initial cost? Then the recently-announced unveiling of a radical new pay-as-you-go plan in Australia may be for you.<\/p>\n

According to an April 21 report in the Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, an American company, Sungevity Inc., has teamed up with Lismore-based solar installer Nickel Energy to set up an Australian subsidiary, Sungevity Australia, which offers free solar panel installation. The ongoing costs under the power purchase agreement will, according to the company, be less than the amount households pay at present for fossil fuelled electricity. The costs will increase in line with the consumer price index.<\/p>\n

According to the report the scheme has taken hold in the United States and is now being offered in Northern New South Wales and South east Queensland though is slated to appear in other parts of the country in the near future.<\/p>\n

Sungevity Inc\u2019s president Danny Kennedy told BusinessWeek that the model had already been received well in the United States and the company, which owns a minority stake in the venture, is looking forward to testing it in Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re obviously seeing the success of the pay-as-you-go solar\u201d model, Kennedy said. \u201cThis is going to be the first pay-as-you-go proposition to Australian customers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy added that the power purchase agreement is to be designed to be less than what some Australian households are currently paying for electricity.<\/p>\n

According to the company\u2019s website, the evocatively-named \u201cRoof Juice\u201d solar panel product works in the following way:<\/p>\n