Hi,
I will be moving to new house soon in VIC and after moving in 6 months I will be putting solar. What is the good current deal going for energy provider so that when I get solar I can move to solar plan without any exit fees and good deal?
FYI - for some reason I cannot add Tag
Looking for victoria deal. I was thinking going for tango energy
Exit fees disappeared in the early 2000's
Any ideas on where they were last seen?
Don’t go for any plan that has a higher solar buy back, you will pay a higher peak and off peak rate. Get the lowest possible peak and off peak rate and whatever solar rebate you get. You will save money by using as much solar as you can during the day.
Get the cheapest plan you can get for six months then churn, if need be. If you can find a contact of any kind you've been looking too hard.
The only providers that don't offer the default feed in tariff (3.3c/KwH) are super convoluted deals that require you to manage your use to off peak times, or ones that are still on the old tariff and haven't updated their plans for the new rates yet, but will shortly. Don't go there.
Once you get solar you'll almost certainly be forced onto a new plan anyhow.
Nobody can tell you definitively which is the best provider for your area in Victoria because the state is divided into territories owed by different wholesalers. Rates vary between territories, and may also vary depending on other local factors. The only person who can tell you the best actual rate for your property is you, and possibly your neighbors.
Do not install solar for the feed in tariff. It's been going backwards for years and is very likely to go negative (literally, as in you'll be paying to feed in) in the near future. The only reason to generate excess power is if you are planning to install a battery and/or go completely off grid. There are also hard caps on permitted feed-in wattage in a number of areas now.
Get the amount of solar your household needs and nothing more. Pretending that you're some kind of energy conglomerate is a mug's game. At the same time that your excess power is passing into the grid everyone else's excess power is too. Your power when the sun is out, nowadays, may as well be worth nothing, and typically is worth nothing to the retailers on the wholesale markets.
The main game at this point is getting more power into the grid during the early evening after everyone gets home from work, either by emptying your batteries during and after dinner to power everyone's stoves and Netflix, or at least by orienting your panels west to eke out a few extra pennies from the system at sundown.
They are different in every state and with every distributor