While there is much commenting on power prices going south, not everyone is aware that the same applies to the rates the retailer pays yout for your excess solar. A person household with a decent 6kW system can easily generate more than 20kWh in excess solar energy. Whether you get 15 cents or just 5 per kWh, makes a huge difference!
We encourage anyone to look at both buy- and sell rates. Sometimes, getting 5 cents more for your excess solar can be worth more than paying 5 cents less for your consumption. Fortunately , there are a few tools on the web that can help you work out what the best deal is. We will be posting our own, very simple tool, very soon.
Also be aware that more and more retailers try to push custmers onto TOU pricing. This pricing, that makes energy at peak times more expensive and energy at low-demand times less, only benefits few customers that can afford to structure their day around energy prices. Equally, we may see more and more feed-in rates that vary throughout the day: paying less in the middle of the day when plenty of solar is being produced, and less at the times when consumption is high but the sun is going down. Lucky those with east-west facing solar panels.