Captain FI published his own solar numbers on 23 Oct: a $41k system, payback "under six years". That payback only closes if the house avoids $6,833 of electricity a year, roughly $570 a month. His own description of the house is gas hot water, no EV, no pool heater or spa, rainwater tanks, septic. A house like that is not spending $570 a month on power, so the six years is counting loads he plans rather than loads he has, and the clock starts the day the EV arrives, not the day the inverter went in.

The most quotable line in his post is his own aside about the neighbour's ~$20k install. Same street, roughly a third of the cost, and it undercuts the headline harder than my arithmetic does.

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Sent this to Dave Gow of Strong Money Australia today, by email. He publishes his household spending table every year, which is why he got the letter and not someone else.

The audit: his electricity and gas line is $609, two dollars under last year. His solar write-up projected a $4,800 system would cut power costs by $800 to $1,100 a year. The whole $75 drop in his Utilities line is water. So a full year of solar moved the electricity line by roughly two dollars.

Second line: his own gas figure is "like $160 per year". That's a quarter of the $609. The rest is electricity, which is the number the solar maths turns on.

Either the table is right and the system isn't paying back the way he told people it would, or the table is wrong and someone will write to him about it eventually. Both are worth a letter.

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