{"id":54189,"date":"2021-10-04T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T01:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=54189"},"modified":"2023-11-27T09:24:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T23:54:44","slug":"5-reasons-to-stay-on-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/5-reasons-to-stay-on-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Reasons You Should Keep Your Grid Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54517\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54517\" class=\"wp-image-54517 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5-reasons-to-keep-grid.jpg\" alt=\"Staying connected to the grid with a home battery\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5-reasons-to-keep-grid.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5-reasons-to-keep-grid-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5-reasons-to-keep-grid-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/5-reasons-to-keep-grid-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54517\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yes, You Can Go Off-Grid With A $10,000 Battery &#8212; But I Don&#8217;t Recommend It<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>If you&#8217;re sick and tired of paying a supply charge to connect your solar home to the grid, then I have good news.\u00a0 You can now go off-grid with a battery system for around $10,000.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>The bad news is, I don&#8217;t recommend it <em>at all.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>You may initially feel a surge of independence by cutting that cable. Or a surge of electricity if you use garden shears.<\/p>\r\n<p>But expect to feel lousy before long because&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Unless you&#8217;ve spent a lot of money &#8212; potentially over $50,000 for a family of four &#8212; an off-grid battery system will provide nothing close to the convenience of living on-grid.<\/li>\r\n<li>You can easily earn more receiving a solar feed-in tariff and potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/virtual-power-plants\/\">Virtual Power Plant (VPP)<\/a> payments than you&#8217;ll pay in daily supply charges.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Going off-grid when you already have a grid connection is not only a costly and potentially uncomfortable choice, it&#8217;s also bad for the planet because&#8230;<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>You can&#8217;t send surplus solar energy generation into the grid, where it will reduce fossil fuel generation.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>Deciding to go off-grid can be a sound financial decision if you are building a home in a rural area where getting a grid connection will cost you an arm and a leg. But if power lines are running past your home, going off-grid doesn&#8217;t make financial or environmental sense.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h2>5 Reasons To Stay On Grid<\/h2>\r\n<p>If you want energy independence, here are the 5 reasons you will be better off buying a solar battery and remaining on-grid. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>You will minimize your grid electricity use.<\/li>\r\n<li>You will have power when the grid fails.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>You can be prepared for the zombie apocalypse.<\/li>\r\n<li>You will be paid a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/\">solar feed-in tariff<\/a> and potentially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/battery-storage\/vpp-comparison\/\">VPP payments<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>You will reduce CO2 emissions that contribute to zombification.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<h2>Off-Grid With A $10,000 Solar Battery<\/h2>\r\n<p>If you want to go off-grid, around $10,000 is enough to do it.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s not nearly enough to have anything like the comfort and convenience of being on-grid.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>When I say around $10,000 is enough, I&#8217;m not talking about a cheaply made box of lithium firecrackers I wouldn&#8217;t consider safe to install beside an asbestos igloo. Instead, I&#8217;m talking about a home battery with&#8230;<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>A high level of safety.<\/li>\r\n<li>A warranty likely to last 10 years.<\/li>\r\n<li>Around 10 kilowatt-hours of usable storage when new.<\/li>\r\n<li>The ability to supply 5 kilowatts of continuous power.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>A solar battery I wrote about recently that ticks these boxes is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/huawei-luna2000-battery-review\/\">Huawei Luna2000<\/a>.\u00a0 It looks like this:<\/p>\r\n<div id=\"attachment_54329\" style=\"width: 703px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54329\" class=\"wp-image-54329 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/off-grid-huawei.jpg\" alt=\"10 kWh Huawei Luna2000 solar battery installation\" width=\"693\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/off-grid-huawei.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/off-grid-huawei-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 693px) 100vw, 693px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-54329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 10 kilowatt-hour Huawei Luna2000 installation by Perth&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/installer-review\/solar4ever\/\">Solar4Ever<\/a>.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t need it to provide backup power, you can have this installed for under $10,000.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>With the ability to operate off-grid, the 10 kilowatt-hour version has an installed cost of around $11,000.\u00a0 It has the drawback that you can only use it with a compatible <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/inverters\/huawei-review.html\">Huawei inverter<\/a>, but if you&#8217;re installing a solar power system and a battery simultaneously, it&#8217;s an option if you want to live the $11,000 off-grid battery dream\/potential nightmare.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h2>Only Energy-Stingy Can Live Off-Grid For $10,000<\/h2>\r\n<p>When I say living off-grid with a $10,000 home battery is a potential nightmare, I&#8217;m referring to normal people.\u00a0 If I was living by myself, I could easily get by.\u00a0 When I&#8217;m at home alone, I rarely use more than a few kilowatt-hours of grid electricity per day and rarely draw more than two kilowatts of power.\u00a0 I&#8217;m only ever likely to draw more than 5 kilowatts of power if I get carried away in the kitchen.<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/off_grid_chef9.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>If I can get by on much less energy and power than the battery can provide, then you might think two energy frugal people could, but it doesn&#8217;t really work that way.\u00a0 Even with my energy-efficient lifestyle, I&#8217;ll need the extra capacity to get through periods of lean solar energy generation or unusually high consumption.\u00a0 With two people, the leeway is mostly lost.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>There&#8217;s also increased potential for conflict.\u00a0 If I&#8217;m living off-grid alone and end up sitting in the dark because I stupidly drained the battery, I&#8217;ll only have myself to blame.\u00a0 But when there are two people, it&#8217;s easy for them to blame each other. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>I advise never to try living off-grid with a $10,000 solar battery and your significant other unless you&#8217;re looking for a reason to break up.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s a bad idea, I can show you scar tissue I received when I caused my partner to lose all her energy in a computer game. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-54476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/scar-tissue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/scar-tissue.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/scar-tissue-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/scar-tissue-768x526.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<h2>Off-Grid Comfort Is Costly<\/h2>\r\n<p>There&#8217;s no hard and fast rule for how much you&#8217;ll need to pay for an off-grid system that provides a level of comfort and convenience approaching being on-grid.\u00a0 It will depend on the location, how many are in the household, and energy consumption habits.\u00a0 But be prepared to pay over $50,000 for a family of 4 or 5.\u00a0 Adding the cost of solar power to that can easily take the total cost over $60,000.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Some families may be able to live comfortably with a solar and battery system that costs half that, but you&#8217;d want to be very confident its limitations won&#8217;t drive your family nuts.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>There may be people currently living off-grid with six solar panels and four lead-acid batteries scoffing at the idea that $30,000 isn&#8217;t more than enough, but I&#8217;m talking about people who have lived their lives with the convenience of having grid power available at the flick of a switch 24\/7 &#8212; or the 23.99\/7 the grid actually manages.<\/p>\r\n<h2>You Save More On-Grid Than Off<\/h2>\r\n<p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve bought a battery system big enough to take your home off-grid.\u00a0 Or maybe you didn&#8217;t buy it.\u00a0 Perhaps you won it in a raffle.\u00a0 Regardless of whether you paid for your solar battery or received it for free, you&#8217;ll nearly always be better off staying on-grid.\u00a0 This is because&#8230;<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>If your home battery system breaks down or runs out of charge, you can use grid power.\u00a0 This is cheaper than running a generator, as well as cleaner and quieter.<\/li>\r\n<li>You can receive a feed-in tariff by sending your surplus solar energy into the grid; while if you&#8217;re off-grid, any surplus goes to waste.<\/li>\r\n<li>If you are on-grid, you can receive payments by joining a VPP.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a great opinion of VPPs in general.\u00a0 It&#8217;s complicated for homeowners to determine which one is best for them, and VPP providers can take advantage of consumer confusion to offer lousy deals.\u00a0 But even if, after accounting for drawbacks such as additional wear and tear on your battery, joining a VPP only offers $200 of net benefit a year &#8211; that&#8217;s still enough to improve the economics of staying on-grid significantly.<\/p>\r\n<p>The supply charge to remain connected to the grid varies depending on location and electricity plan, but $1 a day is typical.\u00a0 On the graph below, I&#8217;ve shown how saving $365 a year on supply charges compares to how much a typical home with a battery and 6.6 kilowatt solar system can make by remaining on-grid under four different conditions:<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-54321 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/off-grid-savings-1.jpg\" alt=\"Savings from going off-grid with solar power\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/off-grid-savings-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/off-grid-savings-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/off-grid-savings-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>As shown by the pink bar, annual payments from a 5 cent solar feed-in tariff nearly equal the annual supply charge cost.\u00a0 In this situation, the home would effectively be paying $27 a year for the benefit of being able to draw grid energy if required.\u00a0 A worthwhile price to pay to know you&#8217;ll have electricity no matter what problems your battery system may have.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>With a 10 cent solar feed-in tariff or 5 cent feed-in tariff and a VPP payment, staying on-grid is clearly a better financial deal even if &#8212; very stupidly &#8212; zero value is placed on using grid electricity.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>The above graph understates the advantages of remaining on-grid because most homes capable of going off-grid will have more than 6.6 kilowatts of solar panels and will receive more in solar feed-in tariff payments.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h2>Remaining On-Grid Cuts Emissions<\/h2>\r\n<p>For every kilowatt-hour it supplies, the Australian grid currently emits around 650 grams of CO2.\u00a0 That is a little better than Poland at 724 grams and puts us neck and neck with Estonia &#8212; the only country in the world using Soviet technology to generate <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narva_Power_Plants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">electricity from oil shale<\/a>.\u00a0 But this figure only covers emissions from power stations.\u00a0 Additional emissions from the extraction and transportation of fossil fuels may push the actual figure closer to 700 grams.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>This level of emissions is lousy for a country with&#8230;<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>\u00a0Abundant renewable resources.<\/li>\r\n<li>Aging<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/5-reasons-to-stay-on-grid\/#en-54189-1' id='enref-54189-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(54189)'>1<\/a><\/sup>, unreliable, coal power stations that &#8212; in my opinion &#8212; aren&#8217;t worth repairing after parts of them <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/callide-power-station-mb2011\/\">explode<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>Australia&#8217;s coal power stations are so old, I want to quote <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Amery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Leo Amery<\/a><sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/5-reasons-to-stay-on-grid\/#en-54189-2' id='enref-54189-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(54189)'>2<\/a><\/sup> at them:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>&#8220;You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. In the name of God, go!&#8221;<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Fortunately, emissions from generation are better than they were.\u00a0 In 2000 around 80% of our electricity came from coal, now it&#8217;s down to 62%.\u00a0 A major contributor to coal&#8217;s decline has been Australian households installing rooftop solar panels, which now supply 7.5% of electricity consumed on-grid.\u00a0 But if you take your home off-grid, then you can&#8217;t send the surplus energy generation your solar system produces into the grid to reduce fossil fuel generation.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>If your home can go off-grid, it will produce surplus solar energy.\u00a0 This is because there are only two types of off-grid homes:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>Those that generate plenty of surplus solar energy, and&#8230;<\/li>\r\n<li>Those that spend plenty of time running a generator.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>A typical, north-facing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/6kw\/\">6.6 kilowatt solar system<\/a> in Australia will generate around 9,600 kilowatt-hours a year.\u00a0 If the household consumes 5,000 kilowatt-hours of that solar energy, then 4,600 are exported to the grid.\u00a0 Using the 650 grams per kilowatt-hour figure will reduce CO2 emissions by around 3 tonnes a year &#8212; more than the annual emissions of the average Australian passenger car. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>But reductions in emissions from sending solar energy into the grid will be even higher. It rarely displaces generation from other clean sources such as wind, hydro, or utility-scale solar power.\u00a0 Instead, it normally reduces fossil fuel generation.\u00a0 This makes the CO2 reduction from rooftop solar exports around 1 kg per kilowatt-hour.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>The graph below shows the additional reduction in CO2 emissions resulting from a home with a 6.6 kilowatt solar power system deciding to remain on-grid rather than go off-grid and exporting an average of 4,500 kilowatt-hours:<\/p>\r\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-54459 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/off-grid-emissions.jpg\" alt=\"Emissions reduction - 6.6kW solar system\" width=\"1137\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/off-grid-emissions.jpg 1137w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/off-grid-emissions-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/off-grid-emissions-1024x530.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/off-grid-emissions-768x397.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1137px) 100vw, 1137px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Over 10 years, that comes to 45 tonnes.\u00a0 In most cases, emission reductions will be more than this because most homes will need more than 6.6 kilowatts of solar to go off-grid.<\/p>\r\n<h2>Going Off-Grid Is Not Worthwhile<\/h2>\r\n<p>Whether you care about saving money, saving the planet, or saving until you have a pile of money the size of a planet, buying a home battery and taking your home off-grid won&#8217;t help with any of those goals.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>But I want to clarify that I&#8217;m not saying give up on any dreams you may have of independence by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/101-guides\/buying-batteries\/\">buying a solar battery<\/a>. 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