TV article last 12 months said they pay you wholesale rate, requires 2
meters $$$$.
WA, AU has regulation on this issue (see my other posting).
Cheers Don
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Just spoke to Orion.
Sending excess power back through the grid is possible and is being
done by some people. I don't think they are as negative as you make
them out to be (disclaimer - my wife works part-time for Orion. They
seem like nice enough people). The thing is, Orion own the network.
Not the generation or distribution. You generating power for them is
quite OK with them. They'll even pay you for the power you feed back.
On 07/07/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Quoting Carl Cerecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Do you really think, though, that enough power would be gained on a
> cloudy winters day in christchurch to power a streetlight + extra
> gadgets all night long? I couldn't find any useful numbers on the
> site.
It's not so much cloudy days what about adding power to the national
grid on
normal days (read normal being a day where these units can grenerate
power).
if alot of people did what one did (stuck solar units on his roof and
became
100% self suffiencent with some surplus).
How would this affect vevsted inerests?
How much more power would/could be added to the national power grid
and remember just 'cause chch has a cloudy day doesn't mean elsewhere is
cloudly.
the problem is what is the charge rate (inwards and outwards) to be
for the
excess (if there is) and is it offset against times/days when you use
rather
than give power from the power companies.
there is a big problem in that power utilities have a vested interest in
stopping or at least reducing the methods effectiveness (read stock share
price).
Get a price on becoming overly self suffenient in power usage and then
talk to
orion or who ever they'll not be interested in any scheme you might
suggest.
some person in NZ had done exactly this spent thousards on it and
wanted to
sell his surplus to the lines or reseller via a duel flow meter.
My memory is that they weren't interested an any method of brokering a
deal
and so he is at least less reliant on the national/local grid than
most of us
are.
>
> On 06/07/06, Don Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Yes. Fantastic technology.
>>
>> Wesley Parish wrote:
>> > I came across this today, reading Worldchanging:
>> > WC Retro: Starsight | WorldChanging Team
>> > http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/004644.html#more
>> >
>> > http://www.starsightproject.com/en/africa/index.php
>> > and I thought, what a useful thing to have around town!
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