Didn’t I just say the other day that everything Green touches soon turns to something brown?
This is another incredible example.
Australia’s been going gangbusters on the solar power, even to the point of losing what little arable land they have to dump millions of solar panels on top.
Massive farms, which, in Green schemes’ contradictory nature, help exacerbate the problem they’re supposed to be helping.
Talk about global warming, that monstrosity will raise the daytime ambient temperature by 20°C and the nighttime ambient temp by 4°. https://t.co/f6veWYB8ne
— Max Waters (@MaxWatersNZ) May 13, 2024
Like, it’s not hot enough there already?
Anyway, the loony fascists who Australians keep electing and allowing to beat them into submission (on any number of fronts) continue to march forward, destroying their uniquely dangerous paradise in the name of all things climate cult.
Residents pay hefty power bills even when wholesale energy costs fall.
The wholesale price of electricity in Australia is roughly three times cheaper than it was two years ago, according to new data from the Australian Energy Regulator, but retailers are still jacking up their prices.
The regulator’s Wholesale Markets Quarterly Report for the first quarter of 2024 shows that wholesale energy prices have fallen about two thirds from recent highs in 2022.
However, Queensland Conservation Council energy strategist Claire Silcock said those savings were not being reflected in people’s power bills.
“The retail price is going up in Queensland next year because there’s still a lot of risk for retailers that there will be periods of extreme high prices,” Ms Silcock said.
“They’re managing that risk and not passing those wholesale power price reductions on to consumers.”
With such abundant sunlight and the exorbitant and unreliable grid many of them face, solar installations on their homes made sense as a way to cut costs and keep their own lights on.
“Made” being the operative word.
As with all things that give the average consumer a break, Australians are soon going to find out that the solar panels on their roof churning out electricity are going to become an expensive liability unless they can control the sun from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Seriously.
This is my Electricity bill. My solar panels generated more power than I used. My bill was over $600 pic.twitter.com/G2rmGB8xDD
— RNLilydale 🐭 (@rn_lilydale) May 16, 2024
How are you supposed to control what the uncontrollable sun does to what you’ve got installed on your roof?
Well, now you’ve got to buy a battery to store all that excess power generated during the sunniest part of the day, if you don’t want to pay a premium for it. And if you want to export it during the evening, which is when it’s convenient for the power company but not so much for your rooftop solar array.
See how this works?
Batteries are expensive, hello – up to $10K or more. And I’ll bet there was no mention of batteries or excess power when these systems were first installed. (As we’ve discussed before, here in NW FL, if you’re hooked into the grid, you cannot have a battery for storage that is hooked directly into your array. It has to be hooked into the grid, so what good is any of that?).
Here we go🙄 ..
Getting CHARGED
for putting power⚡️INTO the grid..
If this happens, I’ll turn OFF my solar panels😠..A new tariff in Australia will charge solar panel owners for exporting their energy during the middle of the day..https://t.co/n4f42hXtsj
— AustralianConservative (@AustConserva) May 17, 2024
Consumer groups are going bonkers, but the power companies have customers by the short wires. The answer being floated to the battery problem is – surprise – government subsidies for battery purchases!
WHEE!
Where have they heard that before?
A lot of people will be asking this as the plethora of subsidies and incentives unravel and the true cost of their foolishness becomes apparent.
— Roud#7734 (@Roud7734) May 16, 2024
Nothing like getting sold a shiny good deal until you get popped in the chops.