{"id":29435,"date":"2019-04-09T08:21:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T21:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=29435"},"modified":"2019-04-09T09:27:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T22:57:40","slug":"vodcast-episode-11-mb1007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/vodcast-episode-11-mb1007\/","title":{"rendered":"SolarQuotes Vodcast Episode 11 &#8211; Sneaky Solar Battery Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"SolarQuotes Vodcast #11 - 5\/4\/19\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wX_dre4-WT4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>After a trip to Sydney last week for the Smart Energy Conference &amp; Exhibition, the team is back in Adelaide for episode 11 of the SolarQuotes Vodcast.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wX_dre4-WT4&amp;t=40s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">0:40<\/a> &#8211; Finn and Ronald discuss a recent item on The Advertiser web site that was a little sneaky!<\/p>\n<p>While it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/feature\/special-features\/power-up-to-reduce-electricity-bills\/news-story\/2ba0fd01ca0f3b2eb273e993af05e076\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeared<\/a> to be a news item, it turned out to be an advertisement. The piece made some interesting claims about battery payback being achieved in 5 years, which is impossible. Closer examination of the item found it to be an advertisement from the South Australian Government, promoting its Home Battery Scheme.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know how the Department of Mining and Energy can sleep at night, putting this stuff out,&#8221; said Finn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finn decided to complain about the advert as it was clearly misleading. When he went to complete a form to air his grievances, it stated something along the lines of there being no legal requirement for political advertising to be correct.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The people who make the rules for advertising have exempted themselves from the truth requirement,&#8221; says Finn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finn says for his Tesla Powerwall 2, he sees a financial benefit of just $1 &#8211; $1.20 a day. That works out to a 20 year payback &#8211; even with the massive $6,000 SA subsidy<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wX_dre4-WT4&amp;t=440s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">7:20<\/a> &#8211; Ronald and Finn discuss news the planned solar thermal plant in South Australia&#8217;s Port Augusta is dead in the water.<\/p>\n<p>At the Smart Energy Conference &amp; Exhibition in Sydney last week, a senior representative of SA&#8217;s Department of Mining and Energy said it was going ahead &#8211; less than 48 hours later the cancellation was announced.<\/p>\n<p>In the last SQ vodcast, Finn bet Ronald that the project wouldn&#8217;t proceed (although Finn wanted to see it completed). Ronald lost the bet and had to hand over a wireless mouse (and inexplicably, a can of South African fruit cocktail).<\/p>\n<p>Finn makes another prediction for SA during this segment &#8211; the Tesla 10,000 home battery project won&#8217;t proceed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wX_dre4-WT4&amp;t=707s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11:47<\/a> &#8211; This year&#8217;s April Fools day article on SQ was on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/brownpower-coal-industry\/\">BrownPower<\/a> &#8211; primarily written by Ronald, but with Finn&#8217;s name as author to try and trick those accustomed to Ronald&#8217;s antics on the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wX_dre4-WT4&amp;t=773s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">12:53<\/a> &#8211; Ronald and Finn discuss the ACCC&#8217;s fixation on seeing Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/accc-solar-rebate-mb0995\/\">solar subsidy axed<\/a>; with the Commission focusing on the (low) costs of the program rather than the many benefits that rooftop solar brings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wX_dre4-WT4&amp;t=809s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13:29<\/a> &#8211; Coal power pollution isn&#8217;t confined to carbon dioxide &#8211; it spews a bunch of toxic material into the atmosphere that kill. Finn and Ronald discuss <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/npi-coal-pollution-mb0999\/\">analysis of an NPI report<\/a> highlighting the need for a coal power pollution crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wX_dre4-WT4&amp;t=933s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15:33<\/a> &#8211; Last week it was announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/victoria-smart-inverters-mb1000\/\">smart inverters will be mandatory<\/a> under Victoria&#8217;s Solar Homes Package for solar power system installed under the program from July. Finn explains what a &#8220;smart inverter&#8221; is in this instance, what Volt-Watt and Volt-Var do and the impact of the change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wX_dre4-WT4&amp;t=1188s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">19:48<\/a> &#8211; \u00a0Ronald and Finn question a push by Dubbo Council to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/dubbo-council-solar-mb1002\/\">extract more cash from solar developers<\/a> looking to establish PV projects in the Council&#8217;s region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"yt-simple-endpoint style-scope yt-formatted-string\" spellcheck=\"false\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wX_dre4-WT4&amp;t=1307s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">21:47<\/a> &#8211; Discussing the latest SQ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/aussii-solar-mar19-mb1003\/\">Australian Solar Systems Interest Index report<\/a>, Finn notes the increasing popularity of 6kw and larger systems and an upcoming feature for the report concerning consumption monitoring. A bet is made between the pair as to the percentage of Australians utilising our get a quote service who explicitly request solar monitoring. 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