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[chuckChuck]

Bad news! I found the file. I guess my memory is not so far off. LOL

Full cost installed $73,228.00 not including GST.
Saskpower Rebate : $15,097.00 - 61 cents per watt

Current Saskpower Standard Rate Farm for First 16,000 Kwh per month is 12.658 cents/kwh plus 0.5711 cents for carbon tax .13229 cents per kwh. Over 16000 kwh add 5.488 cents/kwh. basic monthly charge $34.97

Farm Irrigation costs 7.078 cents per kwh

35000 kwh per year on average produced at a value of .12658 cents per kwh - annual value $4430.00

Factors to consider:
3% average annual Saskpower rate increases
Lost Opportunity Costs
Declining output loss
Maintenance, repair, replacement
Accelerated depreciation
Lifespan

Do the math boys and girls!

What's the value of the electricity produced by this solar system over it's lifetime?

[Hamloc]

Bad news! I found the file. I guess my memory is not so far off. LOL

Full cost installed $73,228.00 not including GST.
Saskpower Rebate : $15,097.00 - 61 cents per watt

Current Saskpower Standard Rate Farm for First 16,000 Kwh per month is 12.658 cents/kwh plus 0.5711 cents for carbon tax .13229 cents per kwh. Over 16000 kwh add 5.488 cents/kwh. basic monthly charge $34.97

Farm Irrigation costs 7.078 cents per kwh

35000 kwh per year on average produced at a value of .12658 cents per kwh - annual value $4430.00

Factors to consider:
3% average annual Saskpower rate increases
Lost Opportunity Costs
Declining output loss
Maintenance, repair, replacement
Accelerated depreciation
Lifespan

Do the math boys and girls!

What's the value of the electricity produced by this solar system over it's lifetime?

Almost twice what it would be in Alberta LOL!

[farmaholic]

Only an complete moron would come on to an ag forum and say Farmers are subsidized after justine just gave all his buddies billions and billions of subsidies !

Your a ****ing idiot !

We don't take a dime if we don't earn it Way out Here !

Someone will provide you with the list.

[chuckChuck]

Almost twice what it would be in Alberta LOL!

Twice what? Try to be a little more specific otherwise we don't know what you are talking about.

[Hamloc]

Twice what? Try to be a little more specific otherwise we don't know what you are talking about.

Chuck2 you asked what the value of the electricity was over the lifetime of the system. I said the electricity in Saskatchewan is worth almost twice as much as it would be in Alberta as far as what a person would be payed. Not that hard to figure out if you read my previous posts LOL!

[tweety]

Only an complete moron would come on to an ag forum and say Farmers are subsidized after justine just gave all his buddies billions and billions of subsidies !

Your a ****ing idiot !

We don't take a dime if we don't earn it Way out Here !

Are you sure the moron isn't the one saying farmers get no subsidies?

[chuckChuck]

Chuck2 you asked what the value of the electricity was over the lifetime of the system. I said the electricity in Saskatchewan is worth almost twice as much as it would be in Alberta as far as what a person would be payed. Not that hard to figure out if you read my previous posts LOL!

Hamloc what's the price you pay per Kwh all in, including service charges, supply, transmission and distribution costs?

Because Hydro Quebec has a comparison of electricity prices across selected North American cities and it shows the residential cost of electricity in Edmonton and Calgary at 14.29 and 14.83 cents per kwh respectively. Those prices are hardly 1/2 the cost of electricity in Saskatchewan.

https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/comparison-electricity-prices.pdf https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/comparison-electricity-prices.pdf

[Hamloc]

Hamloc what's the price you pay per Kwh all in, including service charges, supply, transmission and distribution costs?

Because Hydro Quebec has a comparison of electricity prices across selected North American cities and it shows the residential cost of electricity in Edmonton and Calgary at 14.29 and 14.83 cents per kwh respectively. Those prices are hardly 1/2 the cost of electricity in Saskatchewan.

https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/comparison-electricity-prices.pdf https://www.hydroquebec.com/data/documents-donnees/pdf/comparison-electricity-prices.pdf

It is unfortunate you seem unable to read. In Alberta we pay a generation portion, a transmission and distribution and administration portion. The portion your are credited for if you have a grid tie solar system is the generation portion which was capped by the NDP government in 2017 I think at 6.9 cents a kwh until the end of 2021. Transmission is the largest portion of the bill and it is determined by the size of the breaker on the pole. The larger the breaker, the larger your potential power consumption is and therefore a higher monthly transmission charge. My power consumption charge varies a lot during the year but the transmission charge doesn’t change much. All in my average cost of electricity is roughly 19 cent a kwh. My consumption more than doubles in the winter over summer due to livestock watering and my electric feedmill.

[chuckChuck]

Thanks for the detailed explanation.

Your total cost per kwh from a utility in Alberta is significantly higher than Saskatchewan for farms.

In Saskatchewan Sask Power now credits 7.5 cents per kwh to solar system owners for any excess electricity that they produce. Under my older contract I get the same as I pay for 10 years. So currently just shy of 13 cents per kwh.

Under net metering any solar power you use while the system is generating does not show up on the meter. Only the excess electricity that is used and surplus that is generated. This is balanced out over a specific period to determine a credit or charge.

So the value of any solar electricity you displace in Alberta is the same as you pay.

[furrowtickler]

What’s the environmental impact of developing solar panels... and al related equipment ?? Just askin

Cause open pit mines for rare earth minerals and massive disposal sites for wind turbines and expired solar panels don’t matter I guess.
Was just curious on those scientific studies if they are available

Must be carbon neutral , no reports I guess