The shorthand in my scenario is there's no difference in WA with one state-owned provider - arbitrage with a 10c/kwh peak FIT is unlikely to be below a warrantable kwh cost unless batteries drop significantly further. So self-consumption is the only way to 'make money back', which in turn...
Definitely. That's why I'm working this maths so hard. Payback won't land til year 9 or 10 based on current numbers so want to be sure we count it correctly
Where abouts are you in Australia and/or what's the effective seniors discount?
The general rule seems to be that a right sized (for your consumption) solar system pays itself back long before the warranty is up, but batteries are marginal and more dependent on your individual use case.
Of...
I like the way you simplify this to cost of charging + cost of storage, makes it easy to decide if to sell when feed in tarriff exceeds the sum of these.
Semi-regional Indonesia. I suspect the airtag didn't ping as online until it came within range of my iPad (i don't even currently use an iPhone myself). Looking around the room of people waiting at the baggage carousel, lots of android devices - of course there could have been i-things in...
Yes, synergy (govt owned) is the retailer for households. Makes comparing choices a little easier!
The opportunity for energy trading sounds exciting, especially if significantly exceeding the effective cost-per-kwh dividing the cost of a battery by the number of warranted KWH it can discharge...
Bumping this thread, I've been working on a simple app to calculate whether a battery is a viable add on for someone with existing solar, using actual usage data rather than the very generous estimates and averages often on solar providers' websites. In other words, if I had a 10kwh battery...
Have now signed up to claude pro after initial success with the web apps mentioned above, and have been trialling another idea. May reach out to the AFF brains trust to see if anyone would like to help test what has been built!
I thought smart cases without removable batteries were banned from checked luggage?
(Appreciate this is probably a coin cell, but still, wouldn't want to be denied baggage loading)
Thanks for the recent advice all, looks like I'm on track for PC retain. Found a fair few red planet surveys due, and the points from my hotel stay landed, so it's looking like I'll close the gap .
If work travel trends continue I may drop from SG to PS after next membership year, so will...
Had a few things to pick up on the weekend so managed to get some store gift cards from qantas marketplace for 3x points, so i'm 1500 points on my way to the 10k target. CC monthly spend should cover maybe half of the remainder, so hopefully I can put any and all more upcoming purchases for the...
I was going to start a new thread to ask something similar, but instead I'll propose to take this one a bit off topic to using AI beyond travel planning but to professional and personal life.
This weekend i've asked claude to help me build a html web app which can do a bunch of manual data...
In a good week these time with other high value small items which are on sale - certain moisturisers / sunscreens, preferred shampoos, electric toothbrush heads, eye drops, olive oil, etc which I like to avoid paying full price for.
Good call, that's the current plan. Still have two monthly sweeps to work with if I time it right.
Rates might get excluded from earn (govt transactions excluded by my card) so may need to go via prepaid cards; one reason I was excited by that offer yesterday.
Neither base nor QBR points have come through from this one but yeah, will need them to land in QBR to then transfer from QBR over to my normal qff account before the membership year ends.
Will probably assume I need a different angle, in case this doesn't come through!