My solar dealer did a good installation of a 9.5 kilowatt system. They have submitted an application to PEA for sellback. I assumed they also requested TOU but they tell me No, that is up to me.
PEA installed a mechanical 3-phase meter, so the vendor set the system never to output more than the real-time load.
Q. - Why didn't PEA install a digital meter? Many of my neighbors in this new mooban seem to have solar, but not all, yet every one of them have digital meters. The developer has no intelligible answer, nor does the solar vendor.
Q. - I've looked at the TOU rate tables. For a house that probably would average just over 1,000 Kwh per month but instead will be more like 400 Kwh because of the solar, would getting TOU be worth the effort?
Q. - I paid more than 4,000 baht for the mechanical 3-phase meter. If I get TOU and thus a digital meter, I think it will cost about another 8,000. Does that sound right?
Q. - The solar vendor told me just now, months after we moved in, that PEA won't issue any sellback contracts until every property in the mooban has been sold. Could that possibly be true?
Thanks.