I’ve thought for a while that all solar feeders should switch off their feeds to bring power retailers to a better deal. We’ve reached the point where the national grids depend on residential solar, but they in-turn treat those feeds like an inconvenience.
I’ve thought for a while that all solar feeders should switch off their feeds to bring power retailers to a better deal. We’ve reached the point where the national grids depend on residential solar, but they in-turn treat those feeds like an inconvenience.
Unfortunately I don’t know how much good it’ll do, OE recently added curtailment stats:
https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nem/?range=7d&interval=30m&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed&show=curtailment_wind%2Ccurtailment_solar_utility
So far today can see up to 6GW of wind and solar farms curtailing/turning off due to the price being negative/uneconomical
I’m expecting to see more plans like this one:
https://www.globirdenergy.com.au/energy-saver/zerohero/
Essentially no feed in during the day and bonus feed in at night
with the new battery incentives, they’re about to learn a hard lesson in FAFO
This is why I think at some point they’ll charge people a fee/tax depending on the size of your home battery… :(