So we're here at Calwell Shopping Centre here in Canberra in the South. Commercial businesses and shopping centres use the most of their energy during the day. So solar works really well with commercial businesses, and most of the energy starts being used sort of eight or nine o'clock, as the sun's coming up and we're starting to generate. So we can get what we call a high self-consumption rate where the energy that we're producing is flowing into the property and being used. Whereas in a domestic situation where often we're not at home during the day and our peak energy usage is in the morning and in the evenings. With a shopping centre like this it's all in the middle of the day. So the return on investment for a commercial like this is between three to five years because you're getting this high consumption rate. So almost all of the power that this hundred kilowatt system is generating is flowing into the business and offsetting a higher rate rather than being exported back to the grid for a lower rate.
Today we're doing our one year system check. So we're just doing a physical walk over. We know the system's working fine through the monitoring platform. So the client and ourselves can log in. We can look at the production we can look at each individual panel performance. One of the reasons why they've gone with that panel is that the panel comes with a full 25 year parts and labor warranty. From that point of view the system's working really, really well. So this is more of a bit of a physical check today. We're checking on the clamps. We're checking to make sure all the panels are secure. We're looking for any visible signs of damage. We're looking for buildup of dirt. You know, just as part of the service that we provide is to check on our systems. We want to make sure that they're well maintained. They're doing what they should be doing. And part of that is checking the physical side of it.
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