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No, the problem at the economic level is that solar generates the large majority of its power when it’s not needed. Power companies don’t need the power because there is massive excess, so they will start charging for feed-in.
It’s like if you got a 20kW solar panel setup but didn’t have batteries and are at work all day every day - yeah you generated a shit-tonne of power, but you didn’t use it, couldn’t store it, and you still have to buy electricity as soon as the sun goes down, only now with shrinking profit for the power companies due to excess solar during the day, they charge you now for power at night, meaning you’re power bill increased after getting solar.
We’re already at the part where solar power is like trying to sell ice to Eskimos.
That's just fear mongering. The energy markets are fucked but not that fucked.
It’s literally where we’re at in Australia. Right now. As we keep pushing for more and more “renewables”. Prices keep going up. Feed-in goes into negative, meaning you pay the power company to export your solar power to them.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence.
I'm not really familiar with the Australian energy market but electricity doesn't appear to be getting more expensive really https://www.energyplans.com.au/electricity-price-index-australia
It has been. Power prices have been a gigantic issue here for years, with power bills pretty much doubling in the last 5 years and increasing steadily every year despite our lying government repeatedly telling us they're going to get cheaper thanks to renewables lol. Investment in renewables goes up, prices go up.....but that's just a coincidence apparently lol.
Our government promised us that if we elected them our power bills would reduce by $275 a year. Since that promise, our power bills have gone up by more than $275 a year.
The DMO that you linked to is irrelevant. It's the MAXIMUM that power companies are allowed to charge for power. It's significantly higher than what power companies currently charge. The government and bought media carry on about the cost of electricity going down, but it's just the DMO price going down ever so slightly, which means nothing. Power bills continue to rise, and the power regulator specifically says that power bills are going to keep rising.