LETTERS7250: November 2017

For the record

From: Ray Norman
Date: Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at 11:25 am
To: Richard Mulvaney
Cc: Ian Norton
Subject: SOLARenergy For QVMAG??

Good morning!

A snap shot of my SOLARproduction for Nov 9 is below and you will see on that day I exported approx. 25 kWhs to the grid. What the graphic doesn't tell you is how much energy we produced relative to our hot water supply. Nonetheless, because I've not yet bought a battery I'm spending about $25 per week on electricity, a tiny fraction of what I was spending this time last year. This has been a research project for me in the face of being told "solar is inappropriate for your property". You'll see that the placement of my array is less than 'ideal' but there you go.

What has this to do with QVMAG? Well can you imagine:

What a live report of QVMAG generated energy might look like?
Where and how it might be presented to QVMAG visitors and the institutions Community of Ownership & Interest?
What the 100kW capacity institution is about to have might impact upon the communities funding the QVMAG?
What example the institution might be setting if it was to be proactively presenting its energy generation outcomes?
What the operational impact might be if people like me were able feed our excess energy to the QVMAG?
Indeed, what the impact might be IF 100 households like my own were to be able feed their excess power to the QVMAG?

And there are more questions flowing from these if you can imagine that.

None of this is rocket science but I can imagine a whole lot of BUREAUCRATIChumbug that might get in the way of answering questions like these or even being open to them being addressed. Would this be an inappropriate observation?

Nonetheless, daily, I see evidence of the kind of 'outside-the-box thinking' that says "let's have a go." Is there a simple answer as to how, and why, the QVMAG might want to join the ranks of entrepreneurial thinkers looking at energy production? Alternatively, is there such an answer as to why it is not possible, or appropriate, to move in this direction – and now?

I pose these questions to you in the context that you are, apparently, the only person to whom I can address such questions. Given the potential for the QVMAG to be a component of, and a contributor to, renewable energy generation in Launceston I'd be very interested in your response to any of what I'm putting to you here.

Regards,

Ray