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We're all electric, no gas. Outside of sunshine hours without AC we'd likely get away with 10 kWh. In Brisbane it's not gone below 20 degrees overnight this yeah, so we've been running a lot of AC after hours and getting in to the teens in terms of buying from the grid each day. So building in a buffer I figure 20 kWh would be needed so we're not running it flat regularly and not buying from the grid at all unless there's no sun for days. Even on cloudy days I've been surprised at the genera ...

No pools, just a house

The meter looks like it has a transmitter built in to it, so it sends data rather than needing a read. Hopefully the solar installer can figure out what's going on.

I sent the info to the installer when I posted this, but will have to wait until after the weekend for a reply. Definitely a battery is necessary, but the last of our savings went in to solar so a battery is a year or more away. We'll need 20 kWh to guarantee that we'll be using nothing from the grid based on this summer, and maybe more assuming the panels and battery will lose efficiency over time.