Our electric company charges 25% more for renewables.
Comment on Portugal Runs on 100% Renewables Dropping Consumer Electric Bills to Nearly Zero for 6 Days in a Row
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 7 months ago
I’m pretty sure I still pay all the renewable energy I consume at home. I wish the bill was zero, that would be amazing.
eek2121@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Szymon@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Ah, the old “I’m sucking your money tit as long as I can while my industry dies and I refuse to innovate with my profits” tax.
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There research and infrastructure costs. It’s not like it’s free.
Szymon@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Thats the “refuse to innovate with our profits” part I said
Knusper@feddit.de 7 months ago
I constantly hear about or see data that solar and wind power are quite a bit cheaper than other methods by now.
otter@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yea I was curious about that, is there a certain amount that’s paid for? If it was all free, it would incentivize some people to exceed normal usage
Knusper@feddit.de 7 months ago
As I understand, this happens when renewables ‘overproduce’ and we need to get rid of the power somehow. People can gladly use as much power as they want in that case. Even if someone fills up batteries for free to later sell back into the grid when production normalizes, that is actually very much what we want. It just adds storage capacity and ensures prices will stay low for longer.
SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I’m going to go ahead and assume that the article means it comes at zero cost to Portugal, as a country, thus not having to import it. It would be fairly misleading though.
Taringano@lemm.ee 7 months ago
It still Should cost.
Renewable is far from free