In terms of the clients, commercial clients and the agricultural clients, well effectively everybody's looking for the same thing. They're looking to make electricity savings, so our commercial clients will definitely be looking at reducing their consumption during the day, they're in production, they've got lighting going, they've got equipment going, so we are looking at reducing that load during the day primarily. And with regards to commercial and agricultural customers, they're also looking for energy security. So for example, in the agricultural sector in dairy farming, you've got to keep your cows milked. So you can't afford to have your electricity go down and equipment not running, it actually reduces the annual yield if they don't get milked for 24-hours.
Another part for the commercial and agricultural clients is energy security. So they will actually want to know that their equipment is running continuously, they're not going to have interruptions. Yeah look, you don't want to put in crap solar because what's going to happen is you're going to have to deal with that in 5 to 10 years. That's not good for you, it's no good for having to reinvest the capital, it's no good for the environment for having to throw away and dispose of more product, it defeats the purpose of the whole thing. Any decision to invest in a photovoltaic system, obviously there's a critical financial element in that decision, and that's a really important part of it, and something we always look at, the return on investment and the payback periods. But also the value over the full life of the system.
You pay a bit more you get the benefits of the better yield, you get the benefits of the longevity of the product, reliability, trust in the warranty. You pay a little more but as we know you get what you pay for. So over the life of the product you're going to get a better return on the investment.
Why should commercial and agricultural businesses invest in higher quality solar power equipment?
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