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Hi LesterYes, it's amazing what we learn after the fact. I guess many of us don'tinvestigate enough before 'investing' nor look at the nature strip treeswhich tower over the house and blow twigs (up to a metre +) and leaves overmy garden, verandah, gutters and across into my back yard in spite of thembeing 2m high saplings in December 2019 when we bought the property.I took notice of my electrician friend who was getting his panels from theparticular local company so I trusted him. He doesn't ha ...

I worked out my problem. Council gum trees on my nature strip both shading my panels. Council have now planted another 4 across the road from me and 2 more in front of my place so with 8 gum trees I’ll never get any sun on my panels except for the short time the suns arc is directly above in summer! Council say it’s the solar company’s fault and not theirs!Sent from my iPhone

Hi Neil, I did change plan then I left my provider and came over to AGL and apparently I'm on the best plan.On looking back through my invoices, I average roughly $30 to $32 a month feed in over warm months and $1.20 to $4 per month over cooler months. The two gum trees in front of my house shade most of the panels when the sun is arcing low but the worst news is that council has just planted 4 more gum trees across the road from me. 3 of them will add shade to my roof when they grow tall. I gue ...

Thank you for sending the graphs Lester. I am not too tech-savvy and will ask my electrician friend to explain them when I see him.I've just received my first invoice from AGL - 1756.56kWh bought = $440.32 and 497.008kWh sold @$24.36 resulting in payment due for 1259.58kWh = $415.96. This was for 7th March to 4th June so a bit of a mix of temperatures. During March I sold roughly $4 per week and last week of the invoice (29/5-4/6) only 54c.I previously had gas hot water and cooking and the bill ...