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Jase2985:According to our installer about a month ago the changes were awaiting gazetting which was supposed to happen this month. He'll be out to change the parameters on our inverters to match the new reg's once that happens but haven't seen him yet so either it hasn't been formalised yet, or he's just too busy.
Yep and when does the voltage limits come into force?
And just because one company has done it doesn't mean they all will. Others infrastructure may not be capable of handling the extra load at present.
It will be nice to see less restrictions on our generation and export caused by high grid voltages but in the meantime August has been a bumper month for generation; just better if the inverters weren't having to fight the grid. 1,420kWh generated so far this month with over 800kWh exported (Ecotricity's portal is only reporting up until 25th so far). Looking forward to summer and wider voltage parameters.
In other news this is going in just down the road from us with a bigger 433ha/100MW solar farm not far away in the early stages. https://environment.govt.nz/assets/what-government-is-doing/Fast-track-listed/Huirangi-Solar-Farm/061.04-FTA061.04-Huirangi-Solar-Farm-Sch-2A-MfE-assessment-form-Stage-1_Redacted.pdf On what has been prime dairy land which is upsetting a few of the locals but good flat land so well suited to solar.
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Final tally for August was 1,561kWh generated with 969kWh exported. Looking forward to more days like today. Ran out of EVs to charge and with HWC already up to temp by 2:00pm. The idea of some sort of home battery storage or V2H is looking increasingly tempting.
Data includes the generation of our 5kW housetop array being interpreted as consumption as Fronius can't see the phase it's being exported through as we're still to upgrade our monitoring since adding that capacity. (We exported ~37kWh today).
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Final tally for August was 1,561kWh generated with 969kWh exported. Looking forward to more days like today. Ran out of EVs to charge and with HWC already up to temp by 2:00pm. The idea of some sort of home battery storage or V2H is looking increasingly tempting.
You must have a decent sized installation.......
On this property we started with 5.18kW of panels with a 5Kw SMA inverter which was upsized by 4.36kw (8x bi-facial) with an 8.2kW Fronius inverter swapped in. The whole system is mounted on truss stands on our 9mx9m shed.
This year we've just completed a substantial reno on our house which included the addition of an additional 5.8kW of panels and reusing our surplus 5kW SMA inverter from the original setup. So, we've now got just over 15kW of panels feeding 13.2kW of inverter capacity. The only storage we have at present is charging 2 EVs and diversion to our HWC.
I can see total generation but the Fronius Smart metering system can't see the true export levels as the house array is totally exported on a second phase that the Fronius isn't reading. From the SMA logging the house array generated 565kWh in August (all exported) which accounted for 58% of our export.
The house has some late afternoon tree shading and the shed is tree shaded in the morning so one offsets the other. Also ongoing grid high voltage is restricting the generation by ~15% from what I can see so hopefully opening up the inverters' voltage parameters in the near future will bump our generation and export totals up a bit.
Previous to the reno we were with Octopus but they demand installations of >10kW (irrespective of both phases having export caps of 5kW) to go onto their Peaker plan so we changed to Ecotricity who have no restriction on total capacity. Octopus has 40c FIT on peak periods (until end Sept.)with Ecotricity being 21c on their EcoSolar plan. Downside is that Octopus has a $1.725/day vs $1.35 from Ecotricity. I'm currently logging both plans using our usage and so far Ecotricity is better but their IT is pretty ropy with customer portal outages and no account breakdown for August until mid Sept. Octopus were a class act in comparison. All I can see from Ecotricity is a $7.16 credit being due for August, with no pricing breakdown available, which is less than I was expecting.
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