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

• Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  having enough solar and batteries to go completely off grid would require most households to take out a second mortgage to pay for it.

  there are loads of people living off grid up in tara

  i have a 6.6kw solar system and 10kw battery (and a smart meter 😧!) and im already 90% off the grid, in 20 years time we may have 40kw solar panels for the same cost as 6.6kw today and 100kw batteries

  Because disconnecting from the grid won’t be an option, legally.

  sorry are you talking about reality or is this an elaborate blade runner style dystopian fantasy novel you’re writing?

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cool, so you’re not off grid. That last 10% is the hardest part, the most expensive part. The part that stops people from ever being able to be off grid.

    The price of solar panels and batteries will only go up as we stupidly base our entire grid, life, and economy around them, especially since we aren’t manufacturing them here.

    The government will absolutely make it mandatory to be connected to the grid because that’s the only way their desired grid will function.

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    • Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Cool, so you’re not off grid. That last 10% is the hardest part, the most expensive part. The part that stops people from ever being able to be off grid.

      Stop talking shit mate LOL! it’s because I bought my battery in 2022 for 16k, today I can buy a 40kw battery for 6k:

      PLUS • Standard Price: $5,999 • OzBargain: $5,899 (Single-phase 10kW, 4 MPPTs + 41.93kWh Battery)

      www.ozbargain.com.au/node/925016

      I also saw recently 50kw storage:

      [NSW, VIC, QLD] 53.2KWH Solis Storage (Alpha Battery)& 8KW Single Phase Solis Inverter $6399 Installed @ Hybrid Solar

      www.ozbargain.com.au/node/935342

      You know how prices have rapidly come down for solar and batteries? and generation and storage capacities have gone up? I’m making the crazy prediction that this trend will continue… crazy I know!

      This is in 2025, do you seriously believe in 2030 or 2040 we’ll be back to 10kw storage again? that there will be no gains in solar panels for the next 30 years?

      The price of solar panels and batteries will only go up

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      🤦‍♂️ The fuck is this? Are you trolling me?

      Anyway I’m done with this conversation, you don’t know shit and instead of learning and growing as a human you seem content to fill in anything you don’t know with shit and having shit fantasies about the future, this might be the dumbest conversation I’ve ever had on energy ever. good day sir.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Anyone buying those 40-50kwh batteries for $5k and expecting them to actually get installed and not be absolutely crap fakes, well I’ve got a bridge to sell you. Both those deals are dodgy as fuck mate lol.

        Prices haven’t come down for batteries or solar, not the actual price to consumers. A Tesla solar wall costs more today than they did when they first came out. Cost to produce is not the same as price to customers.

        You’re kidding if you think battery prices are going to hit dirt cheap when the entire country literally depends on them because our stupid government are corrupt and incompetent.

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