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That's not all either. To add to those accounts:
Since installing solar power to thousands of properties, electricity power companies have experienced a huge decrease in consumption. Due to many consumers on "free power".
The power supply companies are receiving lowered payments and they argue that they must still maintain the electricity infrastructure.
Therefore they have justified rises in power costs to consumers so they can meet their own costs.
In effect the people not on solar power are subsidising those on solar power. We are rewarded with higher priced power because the power companies now supply less to the grid.
The same happened with water supplies in Qld. During the drought people learnt to use less water, then were rewarded with higher water costs.
Cheers
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