Comment on Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day

FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure is VPP enabled meaning the power company can steal your power and charge you for the privilege.

  With a VPP you are paid for exporting power from your battery to the grid when there are price peaks.

  You get money for doing this and if enough people do it the price spikes flatten down saving everyone on the grid money.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/vpps-have-pros-cons/

    Also the government recently made it legal for power companies to charge you for your exports, which you need to be on a VPP for them to do, and at the same time the government is incentivising everyone to get a smart meter, on a VPP, and solar and batteries……

    Coincidence?

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    • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I don’t get it

      the power company can steal your power and charge you for the privilege

      If you export power to the grid, you are paid for it

      The whole reason to join a VPP, is so you get paid for exporting power during CRITICAL peak events

      I know, because I have now been on 2 VPP’s

      One with Sonnen, where they paid me $15 a month for being on standby to charge during peak events and Globird ZeroHero:

      ZEROLIMITS (Optional add-on): Take your earnings to the next level Get $1/kWh on exports during wholesale critical events, plus other critical event credits

      www.globirdenergy.com.au/energy-saver/zerohero/

      Nobody is signing up to a VPP to donate their power and get nothing for it

      Also the government recently made it legal for power companies to charge you for your exports, which you need to be on a VPP for them to do

      Where did you read this?

      The charge for exports is for SOLAR during the MIDDLE of the DAY because there is TOO MUCH solar

      Solar energy exports are reaching levels in some parts of the grid during the 10am – 3pm period that they are becoming difficult to manage and could potentially pose a threat to network stability. Export charges applied during this window will act as a signal to system owners to self-consume more of the energy they generate during this time.

      solarquotes.com.au/…/debunking-sun-tax-mb2941/

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Sorry I’m out at the shops and wrangling the kids at the moment, so will do a full reply later.

        Solar feed in charges: repositpower.com/…/the-solar-tax-has-arrived-now-…

        What is happening now doesn’t matter, as it’s all going to radically change as the AEMO plan states that 60% of all grid storage is home battery storage, and that the power companies draw from this at will - and they’re not going to pay for it. Power companies are in the business of making money, and politicians are in their back pockets for those sweet lobbying dollars and post-politics executive jobs.

        To make all this work they need everyone with smart meters, and solar and batteries. What they’re doing now is getting everyone to get them installed via incentives, so when everyone has them they can start stealing your power and charge you for it and there’s nothing you can do.

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