{"id":19181,"date":"2018-02-16T13:31:01","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T03:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=19181"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:26:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:56:28","slug":"small-business-solar-payback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/small-business-solar-payback\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Commercial Solar With A 3 Year Payback &#8211; A Real World Case Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19265\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19265\" class=\"wp-image-19265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/commercial-solar-news.jpg\" alt=\"Small scale commercial solar\" width=\"650\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/commercial-solar-news.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/commercial-solar-news-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Can commercial solar power for small business really slash overheads and pay for itself in 3 years? A real-world example.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few days ago I wrote an article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/commercial-solar-small-businesses\/\">commercial solar for small businesses<\/a> but I was worried it may have been a little abstract.\u00a0 I mentioned this to Finn, my boss<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/small-business-solar-payback\/#en-19181-1' id='enref-19181-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(19181)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, and he said people might:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>not believe that they can get a 3 year payback on a small business solar system &#8211; it seems too good to be true<\/li>\n<li>appreciate something a little more hands on<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>.. and suggested I do a case study.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Well, that was fine with me because I love a good Samsonite:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19234 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/samsonite.jpg\" alt=\"A different sort of case study\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/samsonite.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/samsonite-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/samsonite-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/samsonite-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/samsonite-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But it turns out that is not what he was talking about.\u00a0 What he wanted me to do was write about a small business that had installed solar panels and let people know how it had turned out for them.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s how I came to write about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeparkhouse.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">College Park House<\/a> and its 10.9 kilowatts of commercial rooftop solar.<\/p>\n<h2>College Park House Office Space<\/h2>\n<p>College Park House is office space near the Adelaide CBD less than 20 minutes walk from the Adelaide Botanical Gardens.\u00a0 (But when you think about it, how many gardens do you come across that aren&#8217;t botanical?).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19213\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19213\" class=\"wp-image-19213 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/officespace.jpg\" alt=\"Office Space\" width=\"1000\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/officespace.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/officespace-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/officespace-768x415.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I originally thought this was a photograph of me as a young man on that afternoon I spent almost a whole hour working in an office, but my mother tells me it&#8217;s actually a still from the movie &#8220;Office Space&#8221;.\u00a0 I now realize she&#8217;s right because my red stapler has solar cells on it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is a Bluestone villa built around 1900 that has been renovated into a set of 14 offices with a boardroom and a kitchen and stuff.\u00a0 If you are dying to know what it looks like on the inside, here&#8217;s a floor plan:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19215\" style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19215\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/floorplan.jpg\" alt=\"Floor Plan\" width=\"1500\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/floorplan.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/floorplan-300x94.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/floorplan-768x240.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/floorplan-1024x319.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A floor plan of College Park House.\u00a0 If you use this to plan a heist I shall be very upset with you.\u00a0 (I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re George Clooney.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The dictionary tells me a villa is a large country house<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/small-business-solar-payback\/#en-19181-2' id='enref-19181-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(19181)'>2<\/a><\/sup>.\u00a0 Clearly, at some point in the last 120 years, someone went and removed all the country from around it because it&#8217;s now surrounded by a large quantity of Adelaide.<\/p>\n<p>Bluestone is one of the more useless words in the Australian language because it means <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basalt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">basalt<\/a> in Victoria, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diabase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dolerite<\/a> in Tasmania, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Slate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">slate<\/a> in South Australia.\u00a0 It amazes me that in Australia, one of the few countries where most people correctly distinguish between insects, spiders, and centipedes instead of mushing them all together into the &#8220;Hell No!&#8221; category, we thought that one word would do for three completely different types of stone.<\/p>\n<p>We Australians may have made it difficult to know what we&#8217;re talking about when it comes to bluestone, but it still looks pretty nice, as this picture I stole from their website shows:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19219 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bluestone.jpg\" alt=\"College Park House\" width=\"1000\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bluestone.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bluestone-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/bluestone-768x313.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The Problem<\/h2>\n<p>I spoke to David<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/small-business-solar-payback\/#en-19181-3' id='enref-19181-3' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(19181)'>3<\/a><\/sup> who is the son of the owner of College Park House and the one who did most of the research into getting solar power.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in the year before they had solar installed towards the end of 2013 they used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>25,429 kilowatt-hours of electricity over the year.<\/li>\n<li>Averaging 70 kilowatt-hours per day or 5 kilowatt-hours per office per day.<\/li>\n<li>With a total cost of approximately $8,000 a year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The offices were not separately metered and tenants paid for their electricity through their lease, so David&#8217;s family had a clear incentive to reduce grid electricity use.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19225\" style=\"width: 628px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19225\" class=\"wp-image-19225 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/davidtennant.jpg\" alt=\"High electricity charge\" width=\"618\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/davidtennant.jpg 618w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/davidtennant-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 618px) 100vw, 618px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Here we see not a College Park House tenant, but a David Tennant, attempting to cope with a high electricity charge.\u00a0 (Image Credit:\u00a0 BBC)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While some energy savings could be made by replacing the large central <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/air-conditioning\/\">air conditioner<\/a> with a moderately more efficient model, David determined that installing a rooftop solar system would be a far more cost effective way to reduce electricity bills than replacing a perfectly serviceable air conditioner.<\/p>\n<h2>The Solar Power Solution<\/h2>\n<p>The commercial system they settled upon was 10.9 kilowatts with 42 solar panels and two 5 kilowatt inverters.\u00a0 The building has three phase power and so has one 5 kilowatt inverter on two of its three phases.\u00a0 Unfortunately David doesn&#8217;t know what brand of panels or inverters were used and merely relied on the recommendation of his installer.<\/p>\n<p>Because most people aren&#8217;t experts on solar energy, this situation is very common and a major reason why Finn created our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar101.html\">Solar 101 Beginners Guide<\/a> that shows all the solar panels and inverters with a proven track record in Australia; arranged from budget price to premium.\u00a0 Fortunately, David hasn&#8217;t had any problems with the panels, inverters, or output of the system so far.<\/p>\n<p>College Park House&#8217;s solar panels are all on one large section of roof that faces north-east and here&#8217;s a picture of it from Google Maps:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19227 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aerialview.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial View of College Park House PV array\" width=\"859\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aerialview.jpg 859w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aerialview-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/aerialview-768x470.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the panels are in three rows of 14, taking up around 70 square meters.\u00a0 You can also see that it is located next to Blaq Books, which is probably different from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jg_mUfVLa_0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The system cost $13,900 or about $1,300 per kilowatt.\u00a0 That was a competitive price for 2013.<\/p>\n<h2>System Payback<\/h2>\n<p>David estimated the payback period for the solar power system would be three years.\u00a0 In the year following its installation, the grid electricity consumption of College Park House fell by 63% from 25,429 kilowatt-hours to 9,396.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19238 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gridconsumption.jpg\" alt=\"Grid Electricity Consumption Before And After Solar\" width=\"720\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gridconsumption.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/gridconsumption-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to daily supply charges and rising power prices, the electricity bill only fell by around 56% from roughly $8,000 to $3,500.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19240 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/savings.jpg\" alt=\"Electricity bill savings\" width=\"720\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/savings.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/savings-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This results in a saving of approximately $4,500 which gives a simple payback period of 3 years.\u00a0 As electricity prices continued to increase it would have come to under 3 years &#8212; even before considering the fact that because the solar power system was a business investment it could be written off as a tax deduction.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t ask David for details of their business finances so I could work out how much depreciating the asset for tax purposes would have reduced the payback period, because that would have been a bit bloody nosy.\u00a0 But we can be certain it wouldn&#8217;t have hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Looking up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ato.gov.au\/law\/view\/document?LocID=%22TXR%2FTR20172%2FNAT%2FATO%22&amp;PiT=99991231235958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">effective life of depreciating assets<\/a> tables for this financial year, I see that it gives a lifespan of 20 years for business photovoltaic solar systems:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19230\" style=\"width: 1009px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19230\" class=\"wp-image-19230 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/effectivelife.jpg\" alt=\"Commercial solar depreciation\" width=\"999\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/effectivelife.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/effectivelife-300x72.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/effectivelife-768x184.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 999px) 100vw, 999px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image Credit: Australian Taxation Office)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While 20 years is a long time, if you own a small business and install a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar system<\/a> that costs less than $20,000 before the 1st of July 2018 you can write off the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ato.gov.au\/business\/small-business-entity-concessions\/what-s-new-for-small-business\/#Simplifieddepreciationrulesinstantassetw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entire cost immediately<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>System Output<\/h2>\n<p>David said he only kept track of the savings from the rooftop solar installation and not its actual generation.\u00a0 This means I can only estimate its output.\u00a0 I would expect a 10.9 kilowatt solar system facing north-east in Adelaide to generate an average of around 15,200 kilowatt-hours a year, which is only about 3% less than if it had been facing in the ideal direction &#8211; directly north.\u00a0 A total of 15,200 kilowatt-hours would be equal to 60% of the building&#8217;s total electricity consumption.<\/p>\n<h2>Solar Electricity Self Consumption &amp; Feed-In Tariff<\/h2>\n<p>College Park House receives a feed-in tariff of 11 cents for every kilowatt-hour they send into the grid and pays around 44.4 cents for grid electricity.\u00a0 If the building self consumed half the solar electricity produced and sent the rest into the grid for that feed-in tariff, I would expect them to save around $4,200 a year.\u00a0 But as they are apparently doing better than this, their self consumption rate would be around 55%, which is more than I would have expected.<\/p>\n<p>One reason why solar electricity self consumption may be so high is that while most people use the offices from around 8:30 in the morning to 5:30 in the afternoon, they can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.\u00a0 Some people start very early, some finish very late, and some work weekends, with probably a considerable overlap between those three groups.<\/p>\n<h2>Commercial Solar Makes Sense<\/h2>\n<p>Even when allowing for the cost of capital, which the simple payback period ignores, the commercial system David had installed on the roof of College Park House would have paid for itself in under four years.\u00a0 As it was installed in December 2013 this means it is now paid off and should continue to operate with, fingers crossed, minimal costs for maintenance and repair for many years to come.<\/p>\n<p>The system was an excellent investment when it was made and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/commercial-solar-guide.html\">commercial solar<\/a> only makes more sense now that its cost has fallen further and electricity prices have never been higher.\u00a0 It is very likely solar power will be the best investment a business with an unshaded roof can make.\u00a0 While many businesses don&#8217;t own their own roof, the return is so good it definitely makes sense attempt to come to an arrangement with your landlord to get solar panels installed.\u00a0 I will look into some options for renters and get back to you with what I learn over the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago I wrote an article on commercial solar for small businesses but I was worried it may have been a little abstract.\u00a0 I mentioned this to Finn, my boss1, and he said people might: not believe that they can get a 3 year payback on a small business solar system &#8211; it 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