Wendel, solar power tax

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hi

 

you guys keep talking about solar/wind power (which I love)

and that tax on it you're worried about in America (did they just pass one in Oklahoma?)

 

you talk about the cost of grid connection being a big chunk of home use power cost

 

I can't find any info for power costs in the USA (or non that I feel confident enough to quote)

 

but in the UK, the grid costs works out as 3.5p/kWh + 3p/day of our power cost..

(on average we pay the power companies 13p/kWh)

so for an average house in the UK, that's about £180/year or £3.50/week

(a medium sized house here spends about £1000/year on electricity

ok, so it's 18% of our electricity bill... but when you put it into the context of £3.50/week, it's not really much

especially with all the money you're saving by generating your own power

 

which isn't so bad... and it's not as bad as you make it sound on the show

 

I'm all for people with solar paying for there share of the grid, I'm just worried about new taxes coming out and the power companies using them to take advantage of users and make a shed load of extra profit

 

as a side note, in the UK

average power cost is about 13p/kWh

you're paid for all solar power you generate (no matter if you use or export it) right now it's about 15p/kWh (this is to help promote solar power, and reduce the pay back period of the system) - in 2009 when solar was expensive, it was 45p/kWh, now as solar is about 1/3 the price, it's fallen to 14p/kWh

then, if you have an export meter fitted (most don't) you're paid 3p/kWh for what you export

if you don't have a meter, they assume you export 1/2 of what you generate, and pay for 3p/kWh for that

and you pay your normal rates for incoming power and standing charge on your bill etc..

 

I only added this bit because... if they stopped paying for the exported power... it would cover the grid connection charges :-)

 

 

quick sum up with conversion to USD

average kWh cost is 13p/kWh or [b]22cents[/b]

average home spends £1000/year on power or [b]$1700[/b]

average cost of grid connection, per kWh is 3.5p/hWh +3p day or [b]6cents/kWh + 5cents/day[/b]

average house in the UK spends £3.50/week on grid connection or [b]$6[/b]

 

 

Alan :-)

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Wow ,Your power is way cheaper than the usa's (Not really tho we are just being hosed as normal by our politicians and Giant power companies) Then We give them billions of OUR USA taxpayer  dollars ( that we are borrowing from china) for this overpriced low output 30 yr payoff scheme and then all most all have filed banckrupcy or sold off to china. Where did our billions go??Because our labor cant compete with people who work for 20.00 a month no matter how many robots we put in place to manufacture these panels. Gee couldnt be that they were all the big money that got Obummer elected?? Naww  Ill take the 200= years of Natural gas that we discovered that went from 15.00 a unit down to 2.00 a unit for my steam turbine electric. Too late hes having the EPA outlaw those soon. ARRGH You cant run a country at a loss forever just for idealsims  I gues thats why a 43 presidents worth of national debt over 250 years has doubled. Good luck paying that back, But at leadt the political big green energy contributors to obamma got payed back with our money and then some! LOL