I can't seem to find much on power supply/ problems for WA or NT so I can only surmise they aren't having the problems those connected to the national ( ?) grid are.
We tend to think things aren't great when they are Gubbermint owned but then they are given to private enterprise and we realise just how good we had it after all.But it is a Govt owned utility so that in my opinion is even better than the east coast as revenue goes back into the coffers and not to some greedy private clown that thinks only of profit.
There are many predicting the independent operators will rape the grid for all it's worth and put 2/5th of fk all back into it and then when it's a smoking heap will either walk away or demand more handouts from the gubbermint to invest back into their Businesses they pulled billions in profits out of.
Everything I see seems to support that prediction.
You are talking to a guy that has done his whole system without approval, trust me, I don't care But... There is a point where you have to play the game to get to where you want.As for getting approval for bigger connections, who cares. Get a system and add to it yourself, no need to tell them anything about the addition.
Telling them about the addition is not the problem. It's when they see with their smartarse meters that you are pumping 100 Kwh back into the grid and you only have 6.6 Kwh worth of panels on your roof... supposedly. By getting approval for a bigger system you can add on to it and because they -think- you have say 10 or 20 Kw installed, they won't be questioning why you are pumping 5X more back in than every other house around the area with the same size ( 6.6 whatever) system.
I have spoken to 2 installers and they have said that getting approvals for bigger systems is Common although not strictly by the regs. You are supposed to get approvals for every install at the time of Install so it's subject to the current and ever changing regs... largely designed to keep the industry going by replacing perfectly good systems but that's been to my benefit in effect. Wouldn't have been able to get all the cheap used panels I had if it were not for this stupidity.
Knowing my luck, I'll probably get knocked back for some stupid reason or another of having any size system as there is plenty of solar round here. I may have the option of a zero export system but if that happens, I'll have to look at batteries and crunch the numbers as to what works out the most economical and /or reliable.
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