{"id":69193,"date":"2022-12-26T06:43:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T20:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=69193"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T03:21:15","slug":"solar-power-xmas-mb2765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-power-xmas-mb2765\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Power Takes On Xmas Day, Emerges Victorious"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Solar<\/p>\n

Some Christmas cooking, 19 visitors, an aging ducted reverse-cycle air-conditioner, a hot day and a rooftop solar power system. Find out how much Energy Australia made from us yesterday.<\/p>\n

We were meant to spend yesterday at another family member’s house for a get-together with the clan, but on Xmas Eve my better half received a phone call from her brother:<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Hey sis, our air conditioner is kaput and the parts won’t be available until the New Year. Can we hold Xmas lunch over at your place?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(or words to that effect).<\/p>\n

And thus began a bit of schedule rejiggering to hold the blasted<\/span> blessed event at our digs. My other half is very resourceful and flexible, so it hardly fazed her. As for me, it seemed the future of life on this planet as we know it was suddenly threatened. But I was curious to see how having all these heat-producing bodies in our space would affect our energy consumption; particularly given some would be entering and exiting the house frequently.<\/p>\n

The Scenario<\/h2>\n