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Solar panels with Origin? (www.canstarblue.com.au)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by hikarulsi to c/[email protected]

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I am currently doing some research on solar panel and have a good idea of the hardwares and what to balance

Regarding the tariff, looks like the highest is Origin at the time of writing. A catch is to buy their solar hardwares, which also seems to be a decent price

Any experience on origin and other providers? Any catches have you found?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Many of the higher FiT will have some form of cap, only applying to the first 10 or 20ish kW/h exported or maximum inverter capacity, so take that into account. Unless you can self-consume almost all of your generation those plans may not work out too well despite the high advertised FiT. I installed a 10kW system and have reached over 70 kW/h daily export in summer so you can see how the actual average FiT can end up much lower.

I found Powershop to be a pretty good option (was 13c, now 12c FiT, max 10kW inverter capacity but no export cap as far as I can tell), but you do need to run the numbers on the import rates vs your consumption habits to see if it's worthwhile.