scope2093
Joined 5 months ago
Joined 5 months ago
A bit on the toasty side. That was before we had solar installed, now we might as well get AC to use the sun to our advantage. On a personal note, I like the interior a bit warmer, somewhere around 24-25 Celsius.
I have friends in Germany and their solar (similar to ours, no batteries) installation cost more than double. At the time, it seemed expensive and out of reach...
EDIT: forgot to mention that there is a big solar installation boom here, our godfather has a small company which just installed two solar parks and waits for them to go into operation (which is harder than it sounds, due to bureaucracy).
EDIT 2: Just for fun, I've calculated todays price (retail price at the time of writing this) using Romanian prices:
- 22 solar panels (460w): 434.39 RON/panel [1]
- 8kW hybrid inverter: 4873 RON [2]
- 2 16kWh batteries: 17576 RON [3]
Total is 32009 RON, that is (at current exchange rate) 6088EUR. The rest is service (planning/execution), warranty and so on.
[1]: https://depozitsolar.ro/canadian-solar-4/canadian-solar-toph...
[2]: https://ecobatenergy.ro/invertor-deye-hibrid-sun-8k-sg05lp1-...
[3]: https://ecobatenergy.ro/acumulator-renon-lifepo4-xcellent-pl...
We also did the math for ourselves with 8-10 years at current electricity prices: 30 eurocents/kWh (which got 3x more expensive in the last 10 years). So we might be lucky and break even even sooner.
Fun fact: we still don't have AC in our house (it's a new-ish building, built 4 years ago) because it's decently insulated (and we live near the mountains). As in your case, our solar produces way over 100% of what we need, so I'm considering just getting AC to use the sun to cool the house if needed :)
All in all, pretty happy. Especially that we have frequent grid faults. Even my ISP has some beefy batteries for their equipment, so much so that one 14-hour grid blackout didn't affect us at all and we were able to use the internet since we're working from home (FTTH + ONT, GPON).
Usual disclaimer, sample size of one. We're in Romania.