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Originally Posted by The Mekon
Peter, Like you I am also a self funded retiree - receiving nothing from the Government. This has no bearing on the argument.
Allan L may have given me something to think about and perhaps moderate my views, but to me there is still no doubt that government subsidies to install and then generous credits (in past times stupidly so) can be used by the wealthy to reduce their electricity bills, whereas less well off people cannot afford to take advantage of such schemes.
Now if those with solar panels were to guarantee a certain feed into the grid 24hours per day, then I may look upon your case more favorably. But this would mean paying for batteries.
Why should you be credited anything for feed at times when wind power can drive the cost to zero?
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Shouldn’t your beef be with the powers that be rather than an individual?
Solar feed-in is logically alien to me, but it’s not unusual for any government to incentivise early adoption of a policy that will later be legislated. It’s one of those things that’s used to generate momentum and eventually bring economies of scale to the masses.
We shouldn’t be looking to make money from this feed-in, merely to reduce our costs of drawing from and reliance on the grid.
If we look at the UK as an example, wind power and (weirdly) solar power has been encouraged by central government to the point now where 65 million people are occasionally drawing on little more than renewables (oversimplifying).
And then there’s the subject of electric cars...I would love one...I can’t afford one right now, but the more are sold in Australia to the wealthy, the more accessible the technology will eventually become. I’d also want the ability to charge my car purely from renewables, but due to the continued pushing of dirty black rocks that’s a bit of a long shot right now
