Well, if they want access to my power and data, before I would even consider it, I would have to charge a fee.
Perhaps I would call it a Daily Supply Charge.
Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered
Submitted 4 days ago by Taleya@aussie.zone to australia@aussie.zone
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No1@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Taleya@aussie.zone 3 days ago
You have an inverter installed you can look at with an app? Check your installer. We found out the nasty way installers can still access your fucking inverter, even three years after install. Fucker dropped a casual “I checked your usage” when we reqched out about a battery, they still have a plant login.
Salvo@aussie.zone 3 days ago
When we built out house, we didn’t want gas; we didn’t want mains power either but the only way you can go legally off-grid is if you have a petrol-powered backup power supply (IE Generator).
Due to noise restrictions, you are not allowed to have a generator within a distance of permanent dwelling, which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia, even though modern petrol generators are almost silent.
We planned with the builder for No Gas; that was a shmozzle too! The site supervisors claimed it was “Impossible” and installed a gas line anyway. When all the plumbing and wires were stolen by copper thieves, they reinstalled it! They even claimed that Electric hot water was a stupid idea (until their CEO pointed out that he had Electric Hot Water and didn’t have any problem)
This was only 7 years ago.
Nowadays, heat pumps are ubiquitous in new houses and gasless builds are encouraged.
Tregetour@lemdro.id 17 hours ago
which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia
State/corps: Mission accomplished
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
This was only 7 years ago.
wtaf? My last place had an electric hot water heater. I moved in there over 10 years ago, and it was already old by then. I think it was resistive, not heat pump, but not 100% sure on that. Never had gas. What were those dudes smoking?
Salvo@aussie.zone 3 days ago
Commissions/Kickbacks from their appliance suppliers.
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
adingbatponder@fosstodon.org 4 days ago
eureka@aussie.zone 3 days ago
That’s just regular old free market economics.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 days ago
I think what @adingbatponder@fosstodon.org is trying to do is to reference the idea that corporations love to “socialise the costs, privatise the profits”.
Taleya@aussie.zone 4 days ago
This one is absolutely shitting me up the wall because it’s transparent as fuck.
They’ve had years to lobby for hime battery rebates and uptake and neighbourhod battery schemes and build a network, instead they’ve fought them every step of the way and price gouged. So now they’re staring down the barrel of significant national uptake of people generating, using and storing their own power off-grid…they want to play vampire.
galoisghost@aussie.zone 4 days ago
Rent seekers gonna seek rent.