The Inverter is from China and I'm guessing that the solar panels are also from China. We purchased both from a large solar installer. New Zealand does not manufacture solar panels.
Finally pulled the trigger on solar
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Do they give you a 1 for 1 offset and only pay a penny for the overage or do they only pay one penny for each kwh that is passed back to the grid? That could make a huge difference.
I get paid for every kwh I pass back - it doesn’t offset the retail rate of whatever I purchase from the grid. It takes about 3 kwh of over production during the day for me to offset the cost of 1 kwh pulled from the grid at night. Definitely changes behavior and encourages load shifting to the day and to size the system to your daytime average load. A battery would help me, but it would be a really long payoff so I still use the grid as my battery.
