First the brackets:
Don’t be fooled by the blue(ish) sky. It was windy and with occasional sprinkles of rain, and made it to 8.7 degrees C that day. When they started at 7am it was 4.8 degrees.
A few of the panels waiting to go on:
The first row goes up – before the wind picked up and they had to take a break:
Rugged up to watch:
All the panels are on! Now we just need to get ACTPLA to approve it so we can turn them on…
We ended up getting a pretty big system, 42 panels in all. I’ll talk about how we decided on it in a different post. For now, I am pretty pleased each time I come home and see those panels on the roof. But I’ll be even more pleased when they are actually doing something!
Nice panel array indeed! I am impressed.
Can I ask who you used and whether the government incentive helped? I am thinking of something similar..
Sorry for the delay in replying Mick. We used Armada, and the government incentives helped a little. Well, the fed gov incentives helped a little, the feed-in tariff programme helped a lot! Unfortunately it has closed now, and the fed government incentives have also come down, although to be honest, because they are only for about the first 1.5kw of your system, for a system this size that wouldn’t make much difference.
I’d be keeping a close eye on the feed-in tariff programme and as soon as it comes back (assuming it does) sign up. We’re not actually connected yet (still waiting for the inspection – supposed to be in the next couple of weeks), but because we signed on the dotted line (and paid a hefty deposit) back in February, we are in with the really good feed-in tariff rate.