"Power companies will soon be able to charge Australians with rooftop solar panels for exporting electricity to the grid, under new rules introduced by the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC)."
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"No friend ever served me, and no enemy ever wronged me, whom I have not repaid in full."
Well it had to happen. The electricity grid is a commercial operation so they want to control it to make money. Forget it being a public service. However my reading previously showed it was not a very big charge over all.
However the grid will need to be improved and redesigned to accept more two way flow to cater for wind turbines, solar panels of various size arrays, batteries, pumped hydro and possibly other new technology. The power companies will have to get designing instead of just raking in money for owning the old grid that they inherited from the old public owned power providers.
When this first came up, I asked them what were the chances of this happening. " oh no, it is a discussion paper to get the whole system right". Ha de blo.dy Ha.
an interview with the CEO of A E M C, he said" this cannot happen before 2025, and then it cant happen without your consent. Then, oh you can shift your demand around and use your energy to help boost at peak times" Apparently solar gives great out put at 7pm?, also put your dishwasher on during the day and program your washing the same way if you work. Must be a robot to put 2 or three loads thru whilst you work.
He also said that Energy companies will bring great deals to the consumer.
He further totally confused the radio interviewer, Tom Elliot on 3 aw Melbourne, who said " I do not understand what he said"
Remember a time when they wanted to charge those that had dams on their property for the water they collected in them . The excuse was it restricted the amount of water that could be collected by reservoirs etc. and wouldn't be able to be charged back to the ones with dams. Don't know how that went.
Their is a gadget, that you can buy about $600, that converts your excess power in to heating your ho****er system. Apparently all you need to get it to work is 300 watts. I don't know how the thing works, but I will be reaching out to the Australian company sometime this week, when I find their paperwork.
