Virtual Power Plant (VPP) with high FiT

[hys]

Anyone here currently have a VPP setup and joined one of those high VPP FiT (40c) plans?

In NSW - with a 11 Kw system, and generating average 50 kW a day with at least 45 kW going back to grid a day.

I'm calculating an extra $4000 a year, which will pay back the battery in about 3 years (unless im missing something)

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

My parents decided to battery it, so all 12 panels from the roof go to battery, very little goes back to the grid.
As a needy earn very little but work like a pooch, I don't have anything of my own.
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You can pump as many kw back to the grid, but "according to the age of the infrastructure/ie, all what the grid can handle" the buyback is quite limited.
I read soomewhere that because the infrastructure wasn't meant to handle so much energy back to the grid, there is only a limit that it can handle.
Plus the cents per kw that you are paid, can be from 11cents to 50cents on the old rate, the buyback rate has been dropping in cents like flies next to a zapper.
Edit: Its called "Solar Export Limiting", that is the proper term.

 

[Forg]

Because I live within about 150km of Sydney’s CBD, I can only fit about 6kW of cells on the roof … would take me more than the warranty period on the battery to make-back the money on installing the battery, that assumes current connection fee amounts (and they’re going up all the time) … and when something goes wrong (eg. one of my input voltage feeds to my inverter in my 7yo batteryless system so it’s running on under half the output) nobody is willing to come & fix it, they all want you to spend up on a new system.

 

[hys]

My other option, that i'm considering is having the hot water storage system re-wired from off peak controller to use solar during the day.

But should probably wait until I need a replacement unit, to get a lower power draw one.

 

[Scr77]

My other option, that i'm considering is having the hot water storage system re-wired from off peak controller to use solar during the day.

But should probably wait until I need a replacement unit, to get a lower power draw one.

You can Have electric hot water systems replaced for a free heat pump in Victoria (If you‘re in Victoria)

 

[James Pipe]

You can Have electric hot water systems replaced for a free heat pump in Victoria (If you‘re in Victoria)

It is under the VEU program, right?

 

[Scr77]

It is under the VEU program, right?

Yes. Sometimes the annoying doorknockers are good for something!