Anyone have experience with Solar and TAMS

What's the repayment time on them?

I signed up recently for a 6kw system and with grant aid and aca the payback is supposed to be around that if you take an electric price of 18c/kwh.

I was advised that battery storage isn't really worth it at the moment and that the feed in tariff will be very poor so the trick is to be in a position to use as much of the power generated as possible immediately. Will wait and see how it pans out.

To be honest I'm not sure what specifically is covered under the grant. On a spend of roughly 12k In my situation my grant would be 3.5k. This system includes panels, smart monitoring system and hot water divertor.

I'm not sure what you are referring to in relation to pumps. My understanding is the panels produce electricity which can be used for whatever purpose.

It's not in place yet, paid a deposit a while back, probably won't be fitted till next year. I would expect to still be using from the grid..they will provide very little over the winter months

Was thinking that too, it’s great to get real life comments

We’ve solar for hot water which is great, but there’s days from Apr to Oct where you have to boost

Haven't put anything up yet so they are only possible savings. That system should cost about 20k. With vat back and grant it should be around 11 then tax break on top. Problem is they have a limit on kw of batteries you can apply for in the grant which makes no sense. Costs could have gone up 2 since...

I think they will be very common place over the next few years..noticed quite a few houses with panels put on lately..if you have tams grant and are paying tax at 40 percent they seem a bit of a no brainer on a dairy farm..If your farm is linked to the dwelling House it would also help which was the main reason I signed up here. I hope it will be a little bit of insurance with esb rising steadily

Ibar?

Can you put panels on a frame near ground level under tams, as opposed to on a shed roof....?

Can you recharge the batteries at night from the grid? ie from night rate electricity?

Might allow for full evening milking and cooling from sunlight during the day and full am milking and cooling from night rate..

The guy that sold me the system basically said the batteries aren't viable yet, the cost of the battery over the lifetime won't pay for itself or at best break even..

But look everyone's situation may be different.

How much roof space did it take up?

Thanks

We’ve cattle shed roof south to Southeast facing which I would like to use whenever we do go

Is that plus vat?

I was just thinking probably the optimum system would be battery storage for two days use. Solar and wind charge up backed up again by charge up on night time rate supply.

Don't know how that'd work though. The current systems seemingly cut supply of power from solar panels to battery and maybe all in event of power cut. It's not a cut off switch at the meter. (well that's what a solar company posted online).

We’ll done, it’d be great to hear how you get on

10yrs payback on a largely DIY install, so any sort of professional installation is probably at best going to be a 15yr+ payback?, thats still the main stumbling block for me with solar, I want any of my farm investments to be more like 6 or 7years max.