[decimalenough]

Oceania too: Australia installed 442 MW of residential solar and 2.5 GWh of residential batteries in the month of April alone. Both numbers are partly juiced by changes to a rebate program from May, but the overall trend remains explosive growth.

https://reneweconomy.com.au/households-still-going-big-on-so...

[dyauspitr]

Yep, India installed 4 GWh of solar in just the month of April as well.

[beAbU]

Solar installation capacity is measured in watts, not watt-hours. So the unit you should he using here is GW, not GWh.

Pushes glasses up nose well actually, we should use GWp, but that's not really a unit and good ol' watts should suffice.

[dyauspitr]

Yeah, you know actually, I know this because I have an EV. I guess I just looked at what the GP posted and posted the same unit.

[mpwoz]

For batteries, GWh is the correct unit though (storage). Just not for panels/generators/etc.

[vizzier]

Really the correct unit is Joules, but try convincing anyone of that.

[beAbU]

Watt-hours and joules are the same thing, and you are indeed technically correct, but you'll get funny looks if you ask to buy an 18MJ BESS for your home...

[jorblumesea]

very jealous of how cheap AUS solar prices are. < $1 AUD per watt after rebate

[BLKNSLVR]

Don't be jealous of our peak power price though: $0.56/kWh

(I have a battery though, so I rarely pay full tote - which is one of the reasons I got a battery)

[greendave]

Not jealous but that’s no worse than much of California (assuming those were USD you quoted, not AUD).

[BLKNSLVR]

That's AUD, so maybe California's a (fair) bit worse then. I always thought the US had pretty darn cheap power.

Looks like California's maximum peak rate is US$0.74/kWh (without including the baseline credit), which is equivalent to AUD$1.04/kWh

Yeahnah, I don't know what I'm complaining about then.

Get solar panels, get batteries!

[Andaith]

I'd have assumed it was AUD, and even then it's high. I pay 0.28/kWh AUD in Sydney. That'd be 0.2/kWh USD.

[jorblumesea]

wow, that's really high. average price for the us is maybe $0.25 kwh adjusted for AUD

[nashashmi]

We pay like 30 cents in USD per kw.

[WillPostForFood]

Average price is $0.19 in the US.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU000072610

[glaucon]

Which is pretty much what Australian average price is. Average Australian domestic tariff is around AUD 0.30/kwh which is USD 0.21/kwh.

None of this touches on standing charges, I don't know how that works in the USA, in Australia for an average household it runs at AUD 1.00/day to AUD 1.50/day (USD 0.70/day to USD 1.00/day). For an average household the standing charge is going to add 15 to 20% to the tariff.

[Loughla]

I'm assuming that standing charges are like meter fees here. I've paid as low as $0.25/day and as high as $1.25/day depending on where I lived. There's not much uniformity.

[throwaway27727]

You're confusing the price of electricity with the price of solar panels and/or installation, which is what parent comment intended.

[dyauspitr]

Depends on where you are in the US. I pay 11 cents during peak and 7 cents during off hours.