u/welding-guy

The big boy grid batteries are squashing the price. Looks like Amber is not so lucrative given spikes are mitigated day after day.

Any SA peeps pulling in the cash?

Will it eventuate?

It is official, it has a name and it's coming soon. Looks nice.

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Does the free energy window from a retailer come at a cost by increasing prices at other times in the day? It gave me an idea to post some actual numbers. In March I pulled 640kWh from the free window between 11AM and 2PM. I exported 123 kWh to get my zero hero and earn an $8 credit for the month. I cannot see any downside.

I have started rebuilding my flying corner. Main PC is running the big screens, secondary cheapo PC is running SPAD, FSUIPC, Air Manager, Goflight modules via Spad, Old Ipad Air running virtual stream deck.

I am using pop out manager but moving those popped screens to the secondaty PC via spacedesk. The main sim treats them as monitors 4 and 5. The secondary PC is running 2 x Nvidia P1000 cards so I have 8 monitos capacity to expand more.

Please paste your Globird Link here as a comment. Links any where else on this sub will be deleted.

Speaking only of investments outside of super many forget once you hit $45K income you start paying 30c per dollar afterward until the next bracket so selling a CGT asset under the old or new rules makes no difference, most people will already be paying 30% minimum on that gain. It really affects people on low incomes such as retirees the most that won't be able to use the tax free threshholds as a couple to offset $36,400 tax free on capital gain events.

There is a way to comply with the new system and in old age, start a pty ltd, invest via that, get no CGT discount and pay 30% flat tax on income from profits as a non base rate entity, then issue yourself franked dividends whenever you need and use the tax free threshold to get your tax back.

What a good mumma. Nice warm spot too.

Amber charge me monthly $25 subscription but they also charge me $25 for my exports because my exports exceed 10MWh per annum. I made good profits with the 14 spikes since October last year.

I have PV set up on two properties in the same complex.

Site 1 with 32kW of PV and 48kW sig battery, does not use any grid power (Amber Site)

Site 2 with 21kW of PV and no battery (Energy Australia Site)

Both sites are on the same tariff types, both 3 phase.

Site 1 - Amber Bill for April was $94

Site 2 - Energy Australia Bill for April was $4.85

The difference is that site 2 pumps solar to the grid non stop all day at 4.4c per kWh. Site 1 is curtailed because of negative FIT penalty. Due to the grid stability in NSW the amber offer is no longer tasty.

I use home assistant and just love seeing my dashboard. Between 11AM and 2PM I pull 8kW/h rate which is used to charge hot water and top up the battery. Globird rocks!