Solar Battery Storage Townsville

How To Use Solar Battery Storage To Increase The Dollar Value of Your Solar Power Generation…

Here in Townsville, the sun shines strongly.  Some times too strongly.  It can feel like it is melting the shirt of your back.

But there are some benefits.  One is that our wet season comes in summer – so we miss out on that awful “cold AND wet” combination that you get in places like Perth or Adelaide or Melbourne.

The other benefit has to do with our electricity bills.  We Townsvillians are under the protection of a monopoly power provider called “Ergon”.   They send us our power bills each quarter, and do their best to be seen to be looking after us.  Ergon is in a tough position, that is going to get tougher over the next year or so.

One source of this challenge for them is the surge of solar panel and storage battery combinations that makes each home or business into a mini “power system”.

In the VERY near future (and right now for SOME electricity users), it makes economic sense to add a solar storage battery.  This for those who already have roof panels installed, AND for those who do not have panels.

The key point is this, are you ready?

We can only capture and harvest energy from the sun in the DAYTIME!

Ergon knows this.  And you know this.  The inference is that the majority of homes are empty during the day – so less electricity is used then.  Most homes are occupied in the morning and nights – when solar power is not available.

So – the excess power that your lovely solar panels generated during the day goes to:

  1. Ergon – for 6 to 8 cents per KWH in Townsville area
  2. Nowhere – is wasted completely if you do not have a storage battery.  (Although you can use it for your fridge and pool pump and whatever you have left on in your home.
  3. Into YOUR storage battery – where you can use it later when the Sun has stopped shining (and when ERGON has raised the amount you pay them to 25 or more cents per KWH.  ie 3X what they give you for the power you sold them during the day.)

Look – it not Ergon’s fault.  The electricity environment has evolved so that they are stuck with a power grid that is expensive to maintain, with no effective way to “store” the power they get cheap from us, and with an increasing number of people investing in roof panels to their marketing is shrinking!

Each time someone adds solar power to their home or business – it means that ERGON gets less revenue, right?  Otherwise why would anyone add panels?  And Ergon has a lot of overhead costs – it has to keep all those powerlines and poles and transformers in good condition.  And that costs a lot.

But each time someone adds panels (or even worse a storage battery) – it means fewer people to pay them.  And THAT means that the Ergon has to keep increasing the amount that the people who do not have solar each has to pay…

And each time they have to make electricity more expensive – it makes it more attractive for people to get solar and storage!  You can see that this increases the speed of uptake – the more people who get it, the faster those who get it later will proceed.

This is why providers like Ergon are moving into selling solar systems doing electrical contracting.  Because the government appointed bureaucrats can see the end of their empires.

So – Townsville is the ideal place to harvest solar power.  And right now is the time to begin learning about it.  Join our Solar Energy E-learning MiniProgram.  It allows you to educate yourself a little so when you are ready to get moving in the “exodus” from Ergon domination – you know how to make a good choice, avoid the pitfalls that come from a “sales” driven environment, and likely save yourself a bucket of cash.