Solar System Owners' Survey - Win a Prize

This is an attempt to collect and display data on the performance of a large number of real-life installed PV systems. The information collected will be used to evaluate power production estimates used by the Sydney Energy Cooperative and the Australian solar industry in general.

Some of the information given will be made available to the public. This will not include your personal details, only system details and performance with at most, a post code to identify location. This form is open to all owners of PV systems.

As well as the system's electricity production performance there is a section on the owner's experience in general.

All sections and questions are optional, though the more information you fill in, the better our results will be. If you feel a question or its possible answers don't apply to you, just leave it blank.

Thank you for considering filling in this form. I believe that the data provided will be uniquely detailed and diverse and will help the solar energy industry in australia in general, both to service providers and consumers contemplating installation. By entering you will be automatically entered into a prize draw to win an electric bicycle supplied by Glow Worm Bicycles.

Maurice Wells
Sydney Energy Cooperative

Your Privacy
We will never make your name, contact details or address publicly available. No one will be able to know that there is a system installed at your address or in your name as a result of participating in this survey.
Personal Details
These details will not be available to the public
This is mandatory if you would like to receive the statistics AND if you want to go into the prize draw to win an electric bicycle
Your postcode will allow us to see how solar systems perform according to their location
If Yes, please skip straight to System Performance. If No, you can also write what company installed your system. This will NOT be publicly available information.
Your Solar System
Please fill this out if you are NOT a Sydney Energy Cooperative customer. Note you may need to 'uncollapse' this section to see the questions.
Please enter the rated DC capacity of the solar array, eg 1.02kW or 2.5kW
Please enter your inverter brand, such as "SMA or Sunny Boy", "Latronics", "CMS", "Fronius" etc
Please enter the model number, such as SB1100, PVE1200, IG20 etc
Please enter the panel model. It should be on your invoice, such as BP 3170N, Conergy SC170MA or Enertech SE-170M etc
How many solar panels are installed at your house?
System Performance
Most of this information is available on your inverter, your meter or your bill, depending which inverter you have and where you are located. Please fill in as much as you can
When was your system installed and producing electricity that you are able to measure?
Almost all inverters can tell you this information. If you have a Sunny Boy, it's written as 'E-total' on the display.
If you can, please tell us the average kWh produced by your system for the longest time that you have records for.
This is one of the display lines on an SMA sunny boy inverter.
What is the average kWh of electricity you use per day, according to your bill?
How many kWh per day, according to your bill, do you sell to the network?
We're interested in the indirect effects that having a PV system has on owners. Please leave blank if none of the above applies to you
System Owner Experience
Please tell us about your experience as a purchaser and owner of a PV system
Try to only pick the really influential ones, please try not to pick more than 3
Thank You!
Thanks for filling in this survey.
If you'd like us to contact you, please type in your email address and what it was you were interested in, like a quote on solar panels, you want a copy of the statistics etc
Submitted by maurice on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 07:29.
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