Belly, I am a bit confused, what was it that I got wrong ?
Was it the meter going backwards ?
Was it the gross system where they pay you for the power you use ?
Was it the $7 per quarter that the rest of us will pay ?
Was it peak coal that you referred to ?

Your friend, is he from the Port ?
Trying to remember his name, I knew him well quite some while back.
I will think of it in a minute, he had an electrical business in Port Mac.

There is an organisation, a non incorporated association I believe, that
has a large area in which they install solar panels and invite members
to pay for solar panels and they get their share of the profits of the club.
From memory they are somewhere near Bega.
Seems like a good idea, they get the financial output and don't have the
bother of having the panels on your house.
However you would then not get paid for using your own power.

Bazz not that bloke, lets say KKZ John in north QLD till next weekend.
No the commercial system goggle home solar power, brings new metering.
It measures your use, from amps used the whole thing.
It tells you your use and what you return to the system.
Every morning some get on air to brag about yesterday, or lament the sunless day.
You would understand my system and, is mise one as described.
Every country home should have it.
You could, in a days long black out use the power to save fridge or freezers contents.
Mate the commercial home system, check it out , will not get rid of the bill , but twice its offered panels will.
I can not think of a better way to reduce costs and already in Australia we have the output of nearly one power station being generated this way.
You also would know many remote radio repeater sites are powered by solar
regards

Belly, no I did not know KKZ.
OK the net, time & freq ?
mycall@wia.org.au

7100 any day from Friday next 4.30 pm.
I would like some who are thinking about solar but unsure to understand a few important things.
The stand alone full power battery storage system is not cheap, my helper one,not mine you have to do it, is relatively cheap.
Goggle solar panels and follow links to extras needed.
The home one? first step about 3 grand but get a bill about half, twice that and you with self control, get rid of the bill.
30% price rises my investment will not be paid for in my life but no bill maybe a small check for charity, good investment.

"under one god" might just like to know that we have reduced our electricity consumption by, wait for it, drum roll..... NINETY PERCENT!

We don't live in a cave, and we have all the comforts of home, hot water on demand (all solar), two laptops, a [small] digital TV, a stereo, lights in every room (some come on automatically) a fridge and two freezers (which in total use LESS power than a conventional fridge/freezer), and we even pump our own tank water which most household don't have to do.. AND it's ALL solar powered too. In fact we make, on average about five times as much energy as we need/consume........

Why did we do this? It was OBVIOUS to anybody half awake that as we approach Limits to Growth the cost of power was going to skyrocket.

I just got a cheque, today, for $535. Is it at your expense? Only if you are too stupid to do likewise.

I see the Feed in Tariff as a transition period to when everybody will be paying the 52c/kWh we are paid for our solar energy. Then, we will simply get a credit for what we export, and YOU will be able to buy clean green energy for the same price as the dirty coal stuff. What a BARGAIN.....

If you think for one second we are not in for some really major change, you're dreamin'.....