So today, we're at Duffy's forest up on the Northern beaches. We've got a beautiful day beginning. We've got sun on the panels. We've got 40 of them up there, 12.8 kilowatts of thundering, solar energy being produced today. Put on a, an all black panel and we've pretty much filled up the roof space. It was really important for Scott to have the panels looking symmetrically perfect and matching the roof, which is what we've achieved. It was actually him that came back to me and said he wanted the all black panel just for his roof. So we just designed the system around that.
Yeah, well Scott's plan, I believe, is to live in this house forever. I call it their keeper. You know, when you're investing in a solar system that you intend on being together with for the next, you know, 10, 15, 20 years, you want to invest in high quality. And that's what Scott's done here. He's punching out somewhere around 40 to 50 kilowatt hours a day, which has got him quite self-sufficient. The battery that he's put in, a Tesla Powerwall, stores thirteen and a half kilowatt hours. So he's making enough power to be self-sufficient. He's enjoying free energy. And this system's a lovely 12.8 kilowatt solar system that we were just discussing just now the warranties and so forth with the system.
He's well backed with the warranty, you've got some of the best warranties in the business. Certainly the solar panel has got the highest warranty that's available and the battery itself, you're looking at a 10 year warranty on the battery, and what they warrant is the capacity of the battery at the end. So you've still got 80% of the capacity at 10 years. So it's not a throwaway at 10 years. It's, you know, if you need more capacity we can just add another battery to it.
How was the solar panel and battery system designed for Scott's home in Duffys Forest?
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