Quote from: Don007 on April 02, 2014, 10:22:14 PM

I'm not sure what a single Kwh costs me currently, but I think it's about 0,22 (= ~$0.30). It sucks, but there's nothing to do about it.

Banks these days don't offer such loans here if you already have a (recently / new) mortgage loan, so that's no option for me either. It's often said that it takes about 10 years to ROI on solar devices over here. Does that really differ from where you are from? I assume expensive kWh = expensive solar devices and cheap kwh = cheaper solar devices somehow.
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If someone would offer me your idea (a mining rig for the "oversize") i would take it, especially when the people self have no $$ risk involved. Currently, mining Dogecoin, it makes you $9.- a day. That's way more than they can get for selling their electricity

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The beauty of the loans being offered is that they are not property secured (mortgage money), they are secured by the PV systems themselves. What is the cost of PV in The Netherlands? Installed cost here ranges between $2.50/w to $3.50/w roughly.

I like this community so, I'm going to kind of just put the idea out there and hopefully someone can make something of it or at least give me an idea of what may be wrong with it.... It requires just a few pieces.

1. An overproducing solar PV system.
2. A home energy monitor that monitors PV production and demand load (see: http://store.energy-aware.com/products-neurio.html)
3. A high efficiency mining rig.
4. A custom APP (https://ifttt.com/wtf) where the rig is turned on and off based off of hash rates (if i understand correctly these are measure of how profitable it is to mine at any given time) and measured over production. I.E. IF hash rate below X AND daily kWh overproduction above 5 kWh THEN turn rig on for 5 hours (assuming rig demands 1 kWh).
5. A mining "pool" comprised of homeowners with the above setup.

This could be huge. For example, there are well over 100,000 solar net metered customers in California alone. However, the long term viability of solar has been demonstrated...BC is a different story.