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Lester Powerhouse
  • Solar enthusiast
yesterday

Re: Communication

Very little in the way of emails on the website, none in fact . . .AI chat is next to useless.Best thing is to phone (131 245), and surprisingly the waits are reasonable.I think the lines are open 8am - 6pm, some services are 24/7 but probably not specific depts.
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Lester Powerhouse
  • Solar enthusiast
Saturday

Re: Missing solar feed in data

@ShowsOn are you on the battery rewards evening FIT rate ?If so, that's a decent feed in rebate.Maybe remove your account number and do that by PM with one of the AGL reps here (they have a little AGL logo near their username).
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Lester Powerhouse
  • Solar enthusiast
Saturday

Re: SOLAR USERS: whats one thing you wish you knew before you went solar?

@Templar ours is now 1c in SA, was 6c in late 2023 when we put solar on, and that was useful.July 2024 dropped 33% to 4c, 2025 dropped 50% to 2c, and this July halved again to 1c. 0.5c hey ? I have wondered if it might drop even further, a fraction of a cent.I wonder if it will go even lower ?Guessing there will always be something for FIT to be legal, they can't take something for nothing.Maybe 0.25c will be floor. Anyway, the only way to keep in front is get a suitable home battery, basically ...
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Lester Powerhouse
  • Solar enthusiast
Thursday

Re: 10kw solar inverter limit in NSW

I think you are talking about a site's Export Limit . . . ??That's the state or region DNSP, not any retailer.It was probably 5kw in NSW not that long ago, and in recent past they moved to flexible export limits, similar (if not the same) as SA has had for many years.You can have any size inverter you like, and there are many advantages with some systems to have a larger inverter besides what you can feed into the grid.It's just exports are limited to 10kw max.If it's like SA and 'flexible' expo ...
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