ᐅ Experiences with Energy Cloud Services versus Feed-in Tariffs?
Created on: 27 Aug 2020 13:00
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Micha8589
Hello dear forum members,
Our house construction plans were significantly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, but you have to accept the trade-offs when pursuing something important. The good thing is we had enough time to calculate all the options and actually decided to give up our original plan of a gas boiler plus solar thermal system, as a heat pump combined with solar panels turns out to be more cost-effective over 20 years.
The current plan is:
Solid construction house, 148m2 (Kalksandstein – a type of calcium silicate brick – up to the roof ridge plus facing brick)
Air-source heat pump (Junkers Compress 7400)
Photovoltaic system plus battery storage (no provider chosen yet)
Our builder recently received an offer from Senec that includes a cloud tariff. It sounds great on paper, but both I and our builder are somewhat skeptical and are currently researching and calculating further. Unfortunately, I’ve also found contradictory information online.
Is the cloud system worthwhile, or is the classic system with feed-in tariff better?
What do you think? What are your experiences with electricity cloud systems?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Our house construction plans were significantly disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, but you have to accept the trade-offs when pursuing something important. The good thing is we had enough time to calculate all the options and actually decided to give up our original plan of a gas boiler plus solar thermal system, as a heat pump combined with solar panels turns out to be more cost-effective over 20 years.
The current plan is:
Solid construction house, 148m2 (Kalksandstein – a type of calcium silicate brick – up to the roof ridge plus facing brick)
Air-source heat pump (Junkers Compress 7400)
Photovoltaic system plus battery storage (no provider chosen yet)
Our builder recently received an offer from Senec that includes a cloud tariff. It sounds great on paper, but both I and our builder are somewhat skeptical and are currently researching and calculating further. Unfortunately, I’ve also found contradictory information online.
Is the cloud system worthwhile, or is the classic system with feed-in tariff better?
What do you think? What are your experiences with electricity cloud systems?
Thanks in advance for your answers.
Hmm, as far as I understand so far (although I haven’t looked into this in detail yet), no VAT is charged for consumption from the cloud, so the figures above remain the same.
No extra costs apply. The fee is the one you pay for the package (in the example above, package 2500). That means even if I calculate the approximately 2500 kWh I need to purchase at $0.20 per kWh in the example calculation, the cloud is still more cost-effective.
No extra costs apply. The fee is the one you pay for the package (in the example above, package 2500). That means even if I calculate the approximately 2500 kWh I need to purchase at $0.20 per kWh in the example calculation, the cloud is still more cost-effective.
hippjoha schrieb:
Hmm, as far as I understand it so far (though I haven’t looked into it in detail yet), no VAT is charged on consumption from the cloud, so the values above are the same.
No additional costs apply. The fee is what you pay for the package (in the example above, package 2500). That means even if I calculate the approximately 2500 kWh (about 2500 kWh (85000 BTU)) that I need to purchase in the example calculation at $0.20/kWh, the cloud is still cheaper.What does the table look like now? Was the previous purchase price an average price?hippjoha schrieb:
No, I simply calculated it with 24 cents/kWh (see screenshot above) Ah, OK. Every cent can significantly change the overall picture.