{"id":916,"date":"2012-01-24T16:18:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T06:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=916"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:17:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T23:47:45","slug":"how-you-can-save-2000-when-going-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/how-you-can-save-2000-when-going-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"How you can save $2,000 when going Solar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/how-you-can-save-2000-when-going-solar\/aussie-cash\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-962\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-962\" title=\"aussie-cash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/aussie-cash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thinking of buying a solar power system to kill your electricity bill?<\/p>\n<p>Then this one simple action could shave a whole kW off the size of solar system that you need to buy to get that magical zero dollar electricity bill.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->What am I dithering on about? Bear with me for about 3 paragraphs..<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/cost\/\">cost of a good quality solar system<\/a> of 1.5kW capacity is currently hovering around $3,000 after rebates. For every kW you add to your system, you&#8217;ll pay about another $2,000 per extra kW. So a 2kW system will cost about $5,000, a 3kW system about $7000 etc.<\/p>\n<p>If you use 1kW (kiloWatt) of power for one hour, you have used 1kWh (kilowatt-hour) of electricity (about $0.25 worth)<\/p>\n<p>The average aussie home uses 18kwh per day.<\/p>\n<p>A 1 kW solar power system will generate about 4kwh per day. So the average Aussie home needs a 4.5kW solar system to offset all its electricity use (18 divided by 4 = 4.5).<\/p>\n<p>So if you can reduce your electricity bill by 4 kWh per day, you are reducing the cost of your ideal solar system by $2,000.<\/p>\n<p>I just got my electricity bill through today, and happily I saw that my daily usage had dropped about 4kWh per day. Yippee! (see picture for proof)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/how-you-can-save-2000-when-going-solar\/coldwash\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-919\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-919\" title=\"coldwash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/coldwash.jpg\" alt=\"electricity bill showing 4kwh per day drop\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/coldwash.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/coldwash-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What was the cause of this drop? Well, I finally convinced my wife that we should wash the clothes in cold water. (We have 3 kids, so do a fair bit of clothes washing.)<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people seem to think that washing in cold water using &#8220;Cold Power&#8221; detergent or similar is somehow going back to the dark ages. My wife used to think the same. Then one weekend she went to Melbourne for a Girls&#8217; Weekend, and I did all the washing on the cold cycle. About 3 days after she got back I asked her if the clothes were any different, or \u00a0not washed properly or smelly etc. She couldn&#8217;t tell the difference. Since then she&#8217;s been a convert!<\/p>\n<p>Three other advantages of washing cold (apart from huge electricity savings):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No ruined clothes through shrinkage.<\/li>\n<li>Shorter wash cycles (like half the time)<\/li>\n<li>Less fading \/ longer lasting clothes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Occasionally, after the kids have been mud wrestling, followed by dragging each other through raspberry bushes, we have to do a hot wash with a bit of super strength Vanish thrown in, but it is very rare. &#8220;Cold Power&#8221; gets rid of almost every thing else stain-wise.<\/p>\n<p>So give it a go! Trust me &#8211; the world will not end if you wash your clothes in cold water.<\/p>\n<p>And if you are interested in how to choose a washing machine that is cold wash compatible (not all are) then check out the link for a blog post I wrote a couple of years ago that goes into great detail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking of buying a solar power system to kill your electricity bill? 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