{"id":50254,"date":"2021-05-11T06:40:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=50254"},"modified":"2021-05-11T06:40:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T20:10:19","slug":"abc-solar-report-mb1990","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/abc-solar-report-mb1990\/","title":{"rendered":"About That Recent ABC 7.30 Report Story On Home Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"7.30 RETORT - FINN PEACOCK HITS BACK OVER ALARMING ABC SOLAR CLAIMS\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WKetP5I0Lg?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>SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock and blogger-extraordinaire Ronald Brakels scrutinise a recent ABC 7.30 Report segment on home solar power.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The segment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/7.30\/controversial-rule-change-may-see-solar-owners\/13319920\">Power Play<\/a>, went to air on April 27. It kicked off with the case of a Victorian household that recently installed solar panels and isn&#8217;t receiving any financial benefit from surplus electricity generated by the system. This would usually be exported to the grid and eligible for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/\">feed-in tariff<\/a> payments.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not totally clear what the situation is &#8211; whether the system is zero export limited (so nothing is exported), or whether it is returning energy to the grid without payment. Either way, it&#8217;s not a great situation for the household given the big system installed; estimated by Finn and Ronald to be in the 10kW and 12kW range.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald points out while solar power still makes sense in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/zero-kw-export-solar\/\">zero export limit situation<\/a> for smaller systems, for big systems it can greatly extend the simple payback period.<\/p>\n<p>Something Finn found particularly troubling is how the household ended up in this situation.<\/p>\n<p>The standard process for buying solar is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you get quotes<\/li>\n<li>an installer is chosen<\/li>\n<li>the installer applies for permission to connect the proposed system to the grid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s at this point the solar installer discovers if there will be an export limit. The installer should then have a conversation with the customer to explain the situation and determine if the customer doesn&#8217;t want to proceed, or perhaps opt for a smaller system, or discuss giving greater attention to solar energy self-consumption if the intention is to proceed with system originally quoted.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What doesn&#8217;t happen or shouldn&#8217;t happen &#8211; obviously it has here &#8211; you install your solar and then find out you can&#8217;t export into to the grid,&#8221; says Finn. &#8220;That&#8217;s just not how it should work. There&#8217;s been a breakdown in communications somewhere.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another point was the solar owner involved mentioned he&#8217;d be happy if he was saving $300 &#8211; $400 a year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Well, he is,&#8221; says Ronald. &#8220;If&#8217; he&#8217;s got average electricity consumption, he&#8217;s taking a big chunk off his (mains) electricity use in the daytime. With that huge system, he&#8217;ll be using next to no electricity in the day.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finn says in this scenario of zero exports\/unpaid exports (whatever the case may be here), if you have an 11kW system in Victoria you would need to be self-consuming less than around 10% of the generated electricity for the system not to be providing savings of $400 a year.<\/p>\n<h2>Feed-in Tariffs Are Not Being Taken Away<\/h2>\n<p>The ABC&#8217;s 7.30 Report also claimed:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;..many households are no longer being paid for their excess power.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This needs to be clarified &#8211; existing solar owners may see their feed-in tariffs fluctuate; but nobody is losing them. The zero export or export limiting situation is occurring to *some* households installing *new* systems in *some* areas where PV saturation is at a stage it&#8217;s claimed the local network can&#8217;t handle any more at this point in time.<\/p>\n<p>The call as to whether a new system will be export limited is made by the relevant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/grid-connection\/\">Distributed Network Service Provider<\/a> (DNSP) &#8211; and some are better than others.<\/p>\n<h2>The Future Of The Grid And Home Solar Power<\/h2>\n<p>While Australia&#8217;s grid wasn&#8217;t designed as a &#8220;two-way&#8221; power system, it&#8217;s done pretty well to this point. But changes need to be made to cope with the growing inputs from renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Finn says one of the relatively expensive things that need to be done is to put instrumentation all over the distribution network so grid operators can see what&#8217;s actually happening. Another change is the ability to remotely and selectively prevent systems from exporting temporarily when required. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-disconnect-explained-mb1792\/\">remote disconnect<\/a> scenario, &#8220;smart&#8221; solar systems are still able to provide electricity to the household.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald points out such situations may only be an hour or two a year.<\/p>\n<p>The ABC&#8217;s 7.30 report also mentioned an Australian Energy Market Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-batteries-aemc-mb1930\/\">(AEMC) proposal<\/a> allowing networks to levy a charge on solar owners to export to the grid when it is &#8220;busy&#8221;. This implied solar owners will have to pay for the privilege of exporting to the grid during these times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not what they are proposing,&#8221; says Finn. &#8220;They&#8217;re proposing taking 2c off your feed-in tariff. So, if you&#8217;re getting paid 10c to export a kilowatt-hour, at certain times you&#8217;ll only get 8c.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finn says if in the future feed-in tariffs were to drop below 2c, then it would just be a matter of configuring a solar system to not export at those times.<\/p>\n<p>An important point is that under the proposal, solar owners would also earn more at times when the grid needs the power.<\/p>\n<p>AEMC CEO Benn Barr, who appeared in the report, says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;You get a good return from solar and it&#8217;s not going to make it uneconomic for customers to put it on their roof.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The AEMC&#8217;s various models estimate reduction in returns for solar owners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-exports-aemc-mb1938\/\">would be minimal<\/a>. While the AEMC&#8217;s numbers have been challenged, Finn says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;AEMC are smart cookies &#8211; I am very confident they&#8217;re confident in those numbers. I&#8217;ve sanity-checked them and they seem good to me.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Finn states the whole idea of the new pricing mechanism is to try and solve the problem of zero export. And while not perfect, if we hold out for a perfect solution we&#8217;ll not only see more prospective solar owners facing zero exports, we&#8217;ll all wind up in a terrible situation.<\/p>\n<p>If the changes go ahead, households such as the one in Victoria will have to be offered an export level; enabling them to achieve simple payback much more rapidly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock and blogger-extraordinaire Ronald Brakels scrutinise a recent ABC 7.30 Report segment on home solar power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":50255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[678],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50254","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>About That Recent ABC 7.30 Report Story On Home Solar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock and blogger-extraordinaire Ronald Brakels scrutinise a recent ABC 7.30 Report segment on home solar power.\" \/>\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\/abc-solar-report-mb1990\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About That Recent ABC 7.30 Report Story On Home Solar\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock and blogger-extraordinaire Ronald Brakels scrutinise a recent ABC 7.30 Report segment on home solar power.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/abc-solar-report-mb1990\/\" \/>\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=\"2021-05-10T20:10:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/abc-solar-report.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1284\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"664\" \/>\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\\\/abc-solar-report-mb1990\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/abc-solar-report-mb1990\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Michael Bloch\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/66afd571aa00c2e442f0192ebac2f6f1\"},\"headline\":\"About That Recent ABC 7.30 Report Story On Home Solar\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-10T20:10:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/abc-solar-report-mb1990\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":983,\"commentCount\":3,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/abc-solar-report-mb1990\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.solarquotes.com.au\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2021\\\/05\\\/abc-solar-report.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"General Solar &amp; 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