How much sun your rooftop panels will get today, hour by hour, and the best window to run the washing, charge the car or fill the battery off your own roof — modelled from the sun forecast for the valley.
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Yackandandah runs on its own sun — about two in three rooftops here carry solar panels. This reads the sun forecast for the valley and tells you, hour by hour, how much your panels will make today and the best window to run the washing, charge the car or fill the battery off your own roof rather than the grid.
Today
A good solar day.
About 8 solid production hours, 5 of them strong sun.
Modelled from the sun forecast, as of Mon 03:27. Refreshed about every half hour.
Run the big loads roughly 9 am–5 pm — that’s when your panels are producing hardest, so it comes off your own roof.
| Day | Sun | Full-sun hrs | Best window |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | Good | 5.2 h | 9 am–5 pm |
| Tomorrow | Good | 5.3 h | 9 am–5 pm |
| Wednesday | Good | 5.1 h | 10 am–5 pm |
Why the middle of the day matters
In 2025–26 Victoria's minimum solar feed-in tariff falls as low as 0 cents per kilowatt-hour in the middle of the day — so much rooftop solar is flowing across the state that daytime exports are worth almost nothing. Power you use while your own panels are producing is worth far more than power you sell back. So the pattern that pays is simple: run the big loads while the sun is up.
Essential Services Commission — Solar minimum feed-in tariffs 2025–26
This page can’t see the batteries, the mini-grids or the virtual power plant — for those, and to take part, go straight to the community energy channels:
This is the sun, not your meter
Totally Renewable Yackandandah (TRY), started by residents in 2014, set the goal of powering the town entirely on renewable electricity. About 65% of the town's rooftops now carry solar panels, and TRY has helped drive more than two million dollars of community solar and battery investment.
Yack01, at the old sawmill, pairs a 65 kW solar array with 274 kWh of storage — enough to carry dozens of homes through the evening. Yack02, at the Sports Park, adds a 200 kWh battery that can even run in island mode if the grid goes down. They store the town's midday sun for the evening.
Around 210 Yackandandah properties are linked into a virtual power plant that shares and trades local solar. Indigo Power — a community-owned energy retailer born out of TRY in 2019 — lets households with panels share energy with the rest of town and puts half its profits back into local clean-energy projects.
Fetched Mon 03:27. These are modelled estimates, not measurements. Weather data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).