Why All Homes With Solar Will Consider Battery Storage

There are currently close to two million homes in Australia with solar power. We are all saving money, especially thanks to the generous state feed in tarrifs. What happens when the Feed in Tarrifs end, what about  solar customers on a net meter?

We will all be exploring the Battery Storage option.

Let me break it down,

With solar on a NET meter arrangement if you do not use the solar power during the day you will be exporting solar power to the network, this is throwing your money away. Example; if your at work and your home doesn’t consume the solar power to offset your bill then you send the solar power to the grid, the network (Endeavour, Essential or Asugrid) will pay you approx 0.08c per Kw Hr, but when your home and you use power from the grid in peak time the network will charge you anything from 0.25-0.44c per kw hr.
All customers that are currently on a gross meter arrangement and collecting the 0.60c will also need to change their meter to a NET meter in Jan 2017 when the NSW gross Feed in Tarrif expires.

Our advice to customer who have a gross metered solar system is, install a TM5000 with an additional 1.5kW Solar System on a NET Meter feeding solar power into the batteries. And your gross solar will be unaffected.

Or

Net solar customers can install the TM5000 and feed into the batteries. An additional Solar System can also be installed if more solar power is required.

Battery Storage has many benefits

• Storing and using your solar power onsite
• Blackout protection for selected circuits
• Load sharing during peak periods
• Advanced tariff management
• 7 pre-set modes for simple installation
• Generator input and start control
• 5kW, 10kW and 15kW storage systems available

The solar consumer is very much in control of their power, no longer reliant on the grid the possabilty of becoming independant from the grid is very real. Should the power companies start shaking in their boots? I wouldn’t imagine we could ever shake them up, but they too are looking at storage solutions to help regulate and protect their networks. SP Ausnet in Victoria & Ausgrid in NSW all with their own pilots on how storage can assist their networks indictes that we are all moving in the same direction.
Aussie Solar Installations have been installing the TM5000 Battery Storage system in  NSW and we are seeing many enquiries from all states. We would say at least 30% of our enquiries are regarding the battery storage solution and over the next 12 months this will become 50% of our business.

Customers who are looking to control their own energy should be investigating the TM5000.
For more product information go to our web site  

http://www.aussiesolar.com.au/tariff-management.html


Written by Aussie Solar Installation