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razr_sped
post May 8 2023, 10:33 AM

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QUOTE(Jedi3815 @ May 8 2023, 10:04 AM)
im not an expert, but i have looked into it, and decided not to proceed because of...i is poor.

1) if your house bill is above RM200 monthly, solar panel would really help, and is beneficial for you. if your bill is less, you wont see the return until AFTER the panels are dead, so forget it.

2) cost to install can be as low as 20k and as high as 50k. Say your bill is rm500 a month, meaning you need XX amount of kW capacity to be installed, hence more cost etc.

3) Since your house is linked to TNB, you need their "ok" for you to install and sell it back to them. hence they offer their own Solar Panel to you at a price/arrangement. they pay for the "project cost" and you repay them in X years, and your bill went from Rm500 a month to RM 10 a month. gitu la.

4) if you decide not to sell back to the TNB, you spend (say) RM50k, then your bill went from RM500 to RM10 a month, plus during rainy day you take some from TNB, your return of investment might be longer (15 years gitu). So better get TNB's "ok" for you to sell some when you are away from home (working) and generate electricity to be sold to the grid.

5) Now you might be thinking "but bro, aku kerja time ada matahari, kluar rumah time subuh, balik time maghrib, bila nak enjoy matahari punya hasil?" haaaaaa, thats the generating part, your spend RM500 on your bill, but sell RM490....if you dont want to sell to grid, spend a little more for a battery. but get this....MAHAL NAK MAMPOS. whatever you are spending on your solar panel, double that if you want to include battery storage.

Conclusion : you need TNB's ok, which is hard now because ada limit of seats, butttttttt.....if you use their subsidiary, they can give quotation and plan for you. Set aside RM50k max.
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you only need tnb permission if you were to connected to grid which is most of the case when you goes in contract with solar provider. but if you are DIY for farm behind the house then that is not needed as it runs on independent circuit then the grid. there is no sell back anymore as FiT is not active anymore only NEM now. All solar providers will handle the Seda application for you.

i run with VA Solar on NEM3, under NEM contract battery is not allowed and max 12kWp for residential.
i had mine for 29k with 7.6kWp (16 jinko panel) and 9kWp huawei inverter, monthly average usage if i dont travel and dont wfh is around 700kW (280kW from phev and 400kW from household), this is with careful control on AC usage.
the goal is to reduce usage of the unsubsidized rate aka >300kW usage, and now with hot weather i dont need to control much compared to previous.

This post has been edited by razr_sped: May 8 2023, 10:34 AM
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post May 8 2023, 10:51 AM

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QUOTE(Jedi3815 @ May 8 2023, 10:39 AM)
Understood, but what are the return value (in terms of ringgit) from the purchase may i ask?

I've run the numbers if i do a stand alone, (based on my bill), i will only see the positives from the saving after 20 years, since my electricity bill is less than rm150 monthly. so its not beneficial for me, unless TNB yg letak (pay for me) and they give me some electricity for free, and the rest they sell to the grid. but this is the real world, nothing is free. so i dont do it.
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yes ur numbers are right, on rm150 its not really worth it; cause like my objective is to lower till the subsidize bracket which is the first 300 units.
using my current usage bracket of 700kW, it should run on RM290. the return will be more of 7yrs.


 

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