Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Electricity

We produce electricity and supply it to the grid. (and at the times we don't produce from our photovoltaic cells, the grid supplies to us.)

Some of the details are on my web site at
http://members.pcug.org.au/~lindafrd/

The company (Country Energy) charges a service availability charge which means that we need to produce nearly 4 Kilowatts every day to pay that cost. Then of course we need to produce enough to pay for the appliances that we use. Since our usage is close to 4 KWs, an average production of 8 KWs will be our break even point. (which means "free electricity"). More than that and we become producers and actually get paid! :-)

so, yes, we are producers; but it is a fine line. (average production is 8.37KW over the year says Fred.)

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