General Discussions

[ElwoodBlues1]

Yeah, it all comes down to battery capacity and load.
I've spoken to guys with tesla powerwalls (20Kwh ?) and plugging in their 70odd Kwh cars and lasting 3-4 days.
The bottom line is its all doable with some planning on your part and the gov.

Speaking of governments role, I also believe that the NT still has 3 large scale solar arrays that have been completed for 2+ years but our electricity distributor hasnt ticked them off to allow them to connect to the grid !
Sitting there idle.

I've spoken to guy overseas who has just handed back his electricity meter because for the past 2 years (I've seen pics of his bills) his consumption charge was $0 per month.
He was happy to pay the daily charge to have mains  backup but got constant grief in the form of various random inspections because they didnt believe he was using no power.

The NT was/is always a bit of a mess with solar, think an Italian conglomerate own a few of the facilities and the system up there has too many cooks in the kitchen. They wont connect those solar facilities to the grid because of storage battery issues and a fear the ageing infrastructure will fall over plus when you connect a lot of solar arrays at once you get poorer regulation which means dirty power which spikes the line up to very high voltages which kills older infrastructure so they switch those feeds off.
They will probably need to get a 3rd party Engineering Consultant company in to test and sign off on the system because thats how it usually works and they dont come cheap.
NT Government give good rebates on EV vehicles dont they?