Re: [Staffslug] Free solar panels
On 10 August 2010 16:09, Tig <staffslug(a)caveconnect.com> wrote:
Hmm,
The way that I read that is that you only get to use power you generate
*while it is being generated*
which means that you would only be saving power if you were using it during
the day. It is not as if it
looks at how much you use in a month and removes how much you have
generated.
Which makes it a lot less of an interesting proposition unless you use lots
of electricity during the day.
Tig
Pretty much spot on Tig, though I have to say I think you've put it a
little confusingly :-)
Basically, you get the panels for free. The company gets to monitor
how they perform etc and you probably have to agree to be used in any
possible future advertising for the company. So far so good. Any
power that the panels produce during the day is yours to use as you
need it. So, if the panels produce 10 Kw of power during the hours of
sunlight and you use 10Kw of power during that time then everything is
equal. You have 10 Kw of free power. If the panels produce 11 Kw of
power then that extra 1Kw gets fed back into the national grid and the
power company (whoever 'gives' you the panels) gets to keep the
revenue from that 1Kw of power; this is how they create an income.
When the panels are not productive you get electricity from the mains
as normal and pay for it as normal. You do not get any discount
remember from that extra 1Kw of power that you produced during the
sunlight hours.
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