{"id":39163,"date":"2020-04-23T08:19:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T21:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=39163"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:21:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T02:51:06","slug":"solar-green-loans-mb1497","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-green-loans-mb1497\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Loans For Solar Power Can Make Solid Financial Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-39164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sonya-finn-solar.jpg\" alt=\"Finn Peacock and Sonya Feldhoff discuss green loans for solar power\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sonya-finn-solar.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sonya-finn-solar-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sonya-finn-solar-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sonya-finn-solar-768x403.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock joined Sonya Feldhoff on ABC Radio Adelaide\u2019s Afternoons program yesterday to discuss green loans for solar power systems.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Now is a particularly good time to install solar power for a number of reasons, among them Australia&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/rebate\/\">solar rebate<\/a> being even more attractive given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-stc-value-mb1489\/\">high STC values<\/a>. But not everyone may be comfortable in dipping into their cash buffer.<\/p>\n<p>There is a way to buy solar without spending a significant chunk of change up-front &#8211; by using a low-rate green loan from a regulated finance provider that understands the monthly savings solar panels can provide and offers repayments that make installing a system cashflow positive from the get-go.<\/p>\n<p>In his discussion with Sonya, Finn used a South Australian example.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A typical quarterly electricity bill in South Australia is $500 a quarter. The most popular solar system size in South Australia is 6.6 kilowatts. They start at around, for a good one, $5,000. Now, a 6.6kW solar system for someone in South Australia with a $500 bill before solar, it will take their bill to on average throughout the year of about a $35 credit. So that&#8217;s saving you about $535 a quarter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you were to get one of these low-rate green loans, you could buy that solar system without any cash down, without touching any savings, for about $214 per quarter. So, you&#8217;re saving $535 every quarter and it&#8217;s only costing you $214 per quarter to buy the system.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s pointed out that the numbers are averages &#8211; over winter, the savings will decrease and during the warmer months increase.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You will be cash flow positive immediately,&#8221; says Finn. &#8221; It will be a smaller amount over winter, but it will make up for it over autumn, spring and summer.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Traps For The Unwary<\/h2>\n<p>A few things can throw a spanner in the works; such as paying too much for a system, getting a bad finance deal or buying a crap system and it stops working a couple of years.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;But if you can find a well-priced, good quality system, and a low rate green loan &#8211; which generally takes into account you&#8217;re buying something that will save you money and so they can do you a good deal there &#8211; then it&#8217;s very, very compelling.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can listen to the full ABC Radio Adelaide Afternoons segment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/radio\/adelaide\/programs\/afternoons\/afternoons\/12152070\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, (starts just after 1 hr, 4 minute mark and runs for approximately 16 minutes). The segment includes Finn answering questions from the ABC audience &#8211; it&#8217;s well worth the time to have a listen.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on finance options, check out SQ&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solarfinance.html\">guide to financing a solar power system<\/a>. You can also see what a system can save you over the various seasons by using the SQ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/solar-calculator\/\">solar calculator<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock joined Sonya Feldhoff on ABC Radio Adelaide\u2019s Afternoons program yesterday to discuss green loans for solar power systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":39164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39163","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 v28.5 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Green Loans For Solar Power Can Make Solid Financial Sense<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock joined Sonya Feldhoff on ABC Radio Adelaide\u2019s Afternoons program yesterday to discuss green loans for solar power systems.\" \/>\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\/solar-green-loans-mb1497\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Green Loans For Solar Power Can Make Solid Financial Sense\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock joined Sonya Feldhoff on ABC Radio Adelaide\u2019s Afternoons program yesterday to discuss green loans for solar power systems.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-green-loans-mb1497\/\" \/>\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=\"2020-04-22T21:49:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-04-23T02:51:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/sonya-finn-solar.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\\\/solar-green-loans-mb1497\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-green-loans-mb1497\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"Green Loans For Solar Power Can Make Solid Financial Sense\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-04-22T21:49:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-04-23T02:51:06+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-green-loans-mb1497\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":470,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/solar-green-loans-mb1497\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2020\\\/04\\\/sonya-finn-solar.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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