{"id":33877,"date":"2019-10-01T06:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=33877"},"modified":"2019-10-01T06:42:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T20:12:25","slug":"vodcast-episode-32-mb1233","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/vodcast-episode-32-mb1233\/","title":{"rendered":"SolarQuotes Vodcast Episode 32 &#8211; Days Of Wine And Panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Solar + Storage Fails, New LG AC Solar Panel, AusNet Forcing ToU And More\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NO4mWCRoEtg?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>Finn and Ronald discuss battery fails, AusNet forcing new solar households onto ToU, hydrogen hype, LG&#8217;s new AC solar panel and more.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Finn and Ronald discuss battery fails, AusNet forcing new solar households onto ToU, hydrogen hype, LG&#8217;s new AC solar panel and more.<\/p>\n<h2>AusNet Take Away Freedom Of Choice For New Solar Households<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NO4mWCRoEtg&amp;t=63s\">1:03<\/a> &#8211; New solar households in Eastern Victoria are being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/ausnet-forces-time-use-tariff\/\">forced onto a time-of-use tariff<\/a> for the first 12 months, which may not suit these customers.<\/p>\n<p>In Victoria, electricity customers have a one month billing cycle. You can change your electricity retailer or electricity plan every month if you want. But if you want to change your actual electricity tariff; you are only allowed to change that once a year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s particularly bad for solar owners, because usually when you have solar, you&#8217;re better off with a standard tariff &#8211; you have a flat rate,&#8221; says Ronald.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finn says the thing he doesn&#8217;t like about time-of-use tariffs is they make it really hard to determine which electricity plan is right for you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What is almost impossible is getting the average consumer to sit down and do that,&#8221; states Finn. &#8220;Because as we know it&#8217;s very very hard to get a lot of consumers to even switch standard tariffs.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ronald says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Then to say, &#8220;Oh, consumers have freedom of choice&#8221; and there&#8217;s competition, yeah that&#8217;s not true, is it? People can&#8217;t tell which is cheaper, there is not true competition.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There appears to be a trend of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/grid-connection\/\">Distributed Network Service Providers<\/a> putting solar owners on worse or more complicated plans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why not put people who buy air-conditioning on a worse or more complicated plans &#8211; because they&#8217;re the people who are really pushing up the network and distribution costs,&#8221; states Ronald.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>$42,000 Solar + Storage System Doesn&#8217;t Deliver<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NO4mWCRoEtg?t=371\">06:10<\/a> &#8211; A caller to the SolarQuotes office said he spent $42,000 on a solar and battery storage system through a company that SolarQuotes doesn&#8217;t recommend. Even after spending that huge chunk of change, his bills were still in the region of $600 a quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Among the problems, during summer months the system was often cutting out at midday &#8211; which was possibly due to overvoltage issues.<\/p>\n<p>However, the company he bought the system from doesn&#8217;t appear to be interested in fully investigating the situation.<\/p>\n<p>That aside, it was also revealed the person had spent around $10k on 10kW of solar power and $32k on the 22kWh battery system. Ronald feels the money would have been much better spent if it went the other way around.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You could have 20 kilowatts of solar and 10 kilowatts hours of batteries &#8211; but you don&#8217;t need any batteries at all, you just need a lot of solar, then you can get a credit.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The roof in question had plenty of space for more solar panels and the household had a three-phase connection &#8211; so this was possible.<\/p>\n<p>A significant proportion of the person&#8217;s energy consumption was overnight &#8211; heating the house.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think solar&#8217;s at a point where it&#8217;s kind of no-brainer to whack, you know, your 6.6, 10-11 kilowatts on the roof,&#8221; says Finn. &#8220;That just makes sense if you&#8217;ve got an unshaded roof. But when you start looking at 20, 30, 40,000 dollars on solar and batteries; stop, take a deep breath and think about the thermal envelope of your house.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finn believes Australia has an emerging problem with people just throwing money at solar energy and batteries to fix &#8220;gas-guzzling&#8221; houses that are obviously horrendously energy inefficient.<\/p>\n<h2>Worst Review Of The Week<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NO4mWCRoEtg?t=587\">09:47<\/a> &#8211; Another big solar power and battery system that didn&#8217;t cut it, but this time in a very different way. The reviewer spent $41,000 on solar and storage &#8211; but the installation was so poor that it allegedly caused thousands of dollars damage to household goods and &#8220;the street&#8221;. Apparently, the installation was so bad the smart meters caught fire.<\/p>\n<p>This installation was allegedly performed by a CEC &#8220;Approved Solar Retailer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>Best Review Of The Week<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NO4mWCRoEtg?t=699\">11:39<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installer-review\/oz-solar-world\/\">Oz Solar World<\/a> in Queensland receives a glowing review from a customer who had a 20kW solar system installed by the company. The system was installed within 2 weeks of the contract being signed. After 6 months, it had provided just over $2,000 of feed-in credit &#8211; that&#8217;s on top of self-consumption.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;So, you really can smash your bills with a big solar system without a battery,&#8221; says Finn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>SA Releases Hydrogen Energy Plan<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NO4mWCRoEtg?t=790\">13:10<\/a> &#8211; South Australia\u2019s Marshall Government unveiled its plan for making the state a major <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/south-australia-hydrogen-plan-mb1225\/\"> green hydrogen producer and exporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald remains skeptical about the future of hydrogen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00a0&#8220;Where&#8217;s the money coming from?&#8221; he says. &#8220;At the moment, it all depends upon other countries paying more for energy then they need to &#8230; I&#8217;m not saying there&#8217;ll be no hydrogen used, but people who are expecting, Japan, Korea, China, to be putting millions of hydrogen fuel cell cars on the road are mistaken.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ronald thinks hydrogen simply won&#8217;t be able to compete with electric vehicles. Both Finn and Ronald believe people have an emotional attachment to exporting stuff in bulk.<\/p>\n<h2>LG&#8217;s New AC Solar Panel<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NO4mWCRoEtg&amp;t=928s\">15:28<\/a> &#8211; LG recently showed off its latest AC solar panel \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/lg-neon-r-ace-mb1226\/\"> LG NeON R ACe<\/a>. Unlike its predecessor, the LG NeON 2 ACe, the new panels don&#8217;t have an Enphase microinverter on the back, but a unit that was designed by LG.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very hard to make reliable electronics under a solar panel,&#8221; says Finn. &#8220;Enphase have done it &#8211; I&#8217;m sure LG can.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re still not clear on whether these panels will be available in Australia. Apparently there&#8217;s a weird Australian standard that says you can&#8217;t have micro-inverters on a panel with a capacity of more than 350 watts.<\/p>\n<p>Finn and Ronald also discuss latest panel-level optimisation technology from Maxim, which after a couple of false starts might soon pose a threat to microinverter manufacturers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If, assuming there&#8217;s no problem with Maxim panels, that&#8217;s really going to take a lot of wind out of the sails of people selling microinverters and optimizers,&#8221; says Ronald.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>ClimateStrike March<\/h2>\n<p>The pair touch on the recent ClimateStrike marches, one of which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/adelaide-climate-strike\/\">Ronald and Finn participated in<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As for the criticism of Greta Thunberg:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Middle-aged, grumpy old men &#8211; she&#8217;s just a messenger,&#8221; says Ronald. &#8220;She&#8217;s just saying what scientists, economists, many big businesses, insurance companies, power companies, et cetera, are saying&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/solarquotesaustralia\">SolarQuotes Youtube channel<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finn and Ronald discuss battery fails, AusNet forcing new solar households onto ToU, hydrogen hype, LG&#8217;s new AC solar panel and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":33878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-battery-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SolarQuotes Vodcast Episode 32 - Days Of Wine And Panels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Finn and Ronald discuss battery fails, AusNet forcing new solar households onto ToU, hydrogen hype, LG&#039;s new AC solar panel and more.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/vodcast-episode-32-mb1233\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SolarQuotes Vodcast Episode 32 - Days Of Wine And Panels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Finn and Ronald discuss battery fails, AusNet forcing new solar households onto ToU, hydrogen hype, LG&#039;s new AC solar panel and more.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/vodcast-episode-32-mb1233\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SolarQuotes Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SolarQuotes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-30T20:12:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/vodcast-episode-32.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael Bloch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@solar_quotes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/vodcast-episode-32-mb1233\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/vodcast-episode-32-mb1233\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"SolarQuotes Vodcast Episode 32 &#8211; 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