Browsing donedeal seeing noting under 90 for a maize/beet mix, 100 for bales ton weight, re your 25 ton crop, you basically will have a minimium 10% loss-rate when it's used from pit, that's under perfect conditions re no waste, so you need to take 2 and a bit ton of your dm figures....
Anyone at/see the dairy sale in fermoy today? What were prices like?
Before I forget it. A rep called today about the electricity panels for the dairy roof. 60percent tams. The same line is also feeding a dwelling house. He said you can sell back to the grid any unused.
I know a few of you have them installed, are they a success?
Any drawbacks so far?
Are they too good to be true
Delighted with mine, not a big user on the farm, but it's connected to the parents dwelling.they are at home in the day so my mother has her washing and cooking done with the solar in the middle of the day. Have got credit for what was sold to the grid too.
I have tallied up the savings in a while but the first 2 bills were down over 1000kw each on last year
https://x.com/declancollins13/status/1733093413455622572?s=46&t=1e9RhOK1E-GkJ-gG5nwFRQ
I thought with a tams grant you couldn't sell back to the grid
They can't stop you, but they try to limit your system to your predicted usage, on a dairy farm for instance unless you've batteries your generating the majority of your solar power when you don't actually need it
Thanks for that.the whole nitrates thing is forcing a rethink of strategy on dairy farms and in essence the ration is what's causing some of the problem.so if you do decide to maintain cow numbers how would we get the extra land required to produce something to reduce dependence on bought in ration.i see the once a day farmer went to see a farm in the south island that had a lovely simple system involving an electric grinder which fed to the parlour bin and was feeding just ground barley to the cows in the parlour.we need to adapt to the regime and I m just throwing it out there
Forget the batteries get a nice big ice builder instead. Cheaper inverter without batteries too
Isn't the problem with batteries they can only release the stored power over a number of hours so its not like you can store it up to cover usage during milking.
Anything that teagasc government banks are pushing run a mile away thats my advice i bet any money solar compnies are uping prices with grant.will they be operational in years to come or if they go bust like most things in this country.
Have dipped our toe into solar and despite being sceptical i have found solar has an awful lot to offer.it definitely is capable of being a runner in ireland and its single biggest plus when it comes to electricity generation is its lack of moving parts.whether particular companies will survive or not will comes down to strategy and acumen but I have no doubt solar will form a large part of electricity generation in ireland.i suppose 5he the first call a company will have to is whether it will be micro generation or large scale is the way forward
I put mine in last year, got the grant, 100 percent tax write off in year one which was very advantageous for 2022.. did the calculations after 3 months and at that rate my payback was less than 2 years..15 year warranty and expected lifespan of 25 years..
Now I'm sure prices have gone up but I would still be happy it is one of the best investments I've made
Is there anyone you would work with?
The woman.........
God love her
The sales rep said you can now sell it back to the grid, and get a credit off your bill. You score better if there is a dwelling house on the line. As in my case my elderly parents and there is always some appliance going.
I must look into it more. Did the grant include electricians. Or will solar panel company sort that. Certs ect.
I updated my system last year. I got a stronger supply. How ever I was surprised to see the ESB didn't install a smart meter just a one that has to be read??
the trials by teagasc on the bovaer feed supplement to reduce methane by 30% does not work under irish grass based system. it is only effective for 2.5 hours after feeding
our eu dairy and beef farmer counterparts will be using this additive to reduce methane...danone, nestle, the bel company all have backed reaching the 30% reduction by this method, the eu farmers just need to stump up and pay the drug company for feed additive
based on science is the indoor cow is now better for the environment, from a methane point of view
interesting how the methane debate only arose when pharma had a answer to it in the form of a feed additive
Can u name any advice that teagasc have given that they havent changed see there advising lower stoking rate to increase profit well wasnt it the opposite before
Bovine methane was never an issue. All that BS will blow over once they agree to measure it correctly.
There is a live map now that shows the majority of methane comes from fossil fuels and dumps.
I actually signed up for them in 2021 but the advice I got was that the payback on batteries was slow and to size them according to your electricity needs. I think the issue with a lot of lads is they want to put in a massive system with the idea of making money by selling back to the grid..the money in them is from what you aren't buying from the grid so getting the balance right is key.
It was very straightforward in my case, went through the coop and the solar company sorted everything, there are a couple of form and certs but they did all that.
What they pay for what goes back to the grid and what they charge for usage is the sticking point I think. Its always the way here that solutions that may bring a return are weighted toward big companies rather than individuals
I think you get around 40-50 percent of retail price of electricity, but stand to be corrected on that
Well they do have to send out bills and maintain the network call out storms to fix power lines do think your a charity case like expecting co op to give u same price as shop sells milk.
That's exactly what I said🙄
This
There is accelerated capital depreciation on solar (and also on EV's) for sole traders up to 25,000
So if you need to spend more than 25000,buy the panels in December and the batteries in January maximising the reliefs
Payback is within 2 years and that's with NO grant
The grant is just a nuisance delay and more paperwork when you have those tax reliefs available
I have solar in 2 years with batteries, I find them great but i'm on my 3rd inverter.... Batteries side of the inverter gives trouble.
🤣🤣agreed whelan if I called my better half that even joking I'd get bet at a minimum.........
I have a top class advisor. I have never been given bad advise from anyone in teagasc. Their default system maybe "dairying for dummies" but any proper interaction will get you access to all the advise you need to pitch your system exactly where you want to place it.
