Phantom Menace wrote: Someone on twitter who is a Tesla fan suggested I should add a Powerwall to the mix at home. A powerwall battery is $14,100 plus installation. My power bill will average well under $20 per week but if I assume: * no power from the grid is needed i.e. I run purely off solar stored in the battery * $20 per week savings * $14,100 price It is more than 13 years before I have paid back the price of the battery. In reality I will use some power from the grid and my weekly average bill at the moment will be well under $20 so that 13 years is optimistic. |
Phantom Menace wrote: Someone on twitter who is a Tesla fan suggested I should add a Powerwall to the mix at home. A powerwall battery is $14,100 plus installation. My power bill will average well under $20 per week but if I assume: * no power from the grid is needed i.e. I run purely off solar stored in the battery * $20 per week savings * $14,100 price It is more than 13 years before I have paid back the price of the battery. In reality I will use some power from the grid and my weekly average bill at the moment will be well under $20 so that 13 years is optimistic. |
kingiFiddla wrote: I can't put my mouse on it now but a few months back a company in Aus launched a domestic solar lease/subscription service. They instal and own the systems and lease it back to home owners at a set price/lease fee/subscription fee and after a set number of years the fees stop and the system is then the home owners. They did a soft launch in one city or state, were so swamped with uptake they suspended the launches in other states so they could concentrate solely on meeting the demand in the one place they launched. There are also subscription services for EV cars in Aus now too. I don't know how they differ or if they are treated differently (from a taxation perspective) than lease arrangements. Interesting ways to allow private enterprise to fund the roll-outs. |
kingiFiddla wrote: Alan, it sure is going to be interesting when the govt releases its plans in December. |
letsgetem wrote: I too am very worried at this governments casual spending of huge $$ that we dont have. I would have thought the prudent thing when Covid hit, would be to cut spending massively - ie austerity now. The proposed spend of about $800M on a walking and cycle bridge, is ludicrous. |
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