Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Comment on Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day 2 days ago:
Solar feed in charges:
yes as i said and from your own link
Solar export tariffs are designed to stop solar being exported to the grid when there is a lot of sunshine about. That means that solar panel owners should put in place things that soak up their solar generation.
there is currently too much cheap renewable power going to the grid during the day
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
no it doesn’t
The claim that “60% of all grid storage is home battery storage, and that power companies draw from this at will—and they’re not going to pay for it” is a significant oversimplification and, in some respects, a misrepresentation of AEMO’s plans and the current state of Australia’s energy market.
What AEMO actually says:
- AEMO’s Integrated System Plan (ISP) does highlight the growing importance of distributed energy resources, including home batteries, as part of Australia’s future energy mix. The plan envisions a future where consumer energy resources (CER), such as rooftop solar and home batteries, play a major role in supporting the grid, especially as coal plants retire and renewable energy capacity expands. By 2050, AEMO expects a massive increase in both rooftop solar and battery storage, with home batteries potentially helping to avoid billions in grid investment costs—if they are “well coordinated” .
- The key here is “well coordinated.” AEMO and the energy market are exploring ways to integrate home batteries into the grid through mechanisms like Virtual Power Plants (VPPs), where households can choose to participate and may receive incentives or payments for allowing their batteries to be used to support the grid during peak times. Participation is voluntary, and households are not forced to give up control of their batteries without compensation .
- There is no current policy or plan that allows power companies to unilaterally “draw from” home batteries without the owner’s consent or compensation. Any use of home batteries for grid support would typically be part of a formal agreement, such as a VPP program, where participants are compensated for their contribution
- Comment on Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day 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.
- Comment on Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day 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.
- Comment on Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day 1 week ago:
I love your naivety ❤️ you think they aren’t charging as much as they can now :)
- Comment on Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day 1 week ago:
Power companies aren’t in the business of losing money.
Correct, currently they charge you 38c a kw while they pay -10c for the power ;)
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- Comment on Confidential letter for takeover of the Betoota Advocate 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Confidential letter for takeover of the Betoota Advocate 2 weeks ago:
what’s it say? I have twitter blocked at a DNS level
- Australian wholesale electricity prices are falling. So when will power bills stop rising?www.theguardian.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to australia@aussie.zone | 0 comments
- Comment on The year of the bailout: Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter next in line for taxpayers’ cash 2 weeks ago:
if smelters only ran 8-3pm they’d be golden
- Comment on The year of the bailout: Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter next in line for taxpayers’ cash 3 weeks ago:
Clearly, high energy costs lie at the heart of the challenges facing Australia’s power-intensive heavy industries, which also face intense international competition.
The industry minister, Tim Ayres, on Tuesday pointed to “a very tough and volatile global trading environment in aluminium”, including “over-subsidisation in some markets, tariff responses in others”.
The west still doesn’t know how to counter China
Reeve said the lesson was that governments should be thinking harder about how to support the long-term viability of industries considered strategically important, beyond simply showering them in cash.
Agreed
- Comment on Outage Sunday Oct 26 3 weeks ago:
if mastodon had a shared block list where i could block all american politics
- Comment on ‘Glamping’ proposal for NSW national parks slammed as privatising public assets 3 weeks ago:
so long as it’s a separate area and the funds go towards maintaining the national parks and expanding them then I don’t see an issue.
- Comment on 'Nothing' done to address gaps created by teen social media ban, says children's commissioner 3 weeks ago:
Hollonds said she’s worried the ban will adversely affect children who already struggle to find connection and belonging at school, citing LGBTQIA+ children, those with mental health problems, neurodiverse children, children with disabilities and complex needs, and children who live in regional and rural areas.
Is Hollonds aware that the internet existed before social media become a blight on society and that many people from those groups were among the first on it?
- Comment on Bendigo Mosque set to open 10 years on from hostile protests 5 weeks ago:
ಠ_ಠ
- Comment on Bendigo Mosque set to open 10 years on from hostile protests 5 weeks ago:
Hello sir!
I don’t quite understand why you’re referring to me in 3rd person but anyway!
If you’ve seen my other posts you’d know I’ve been a professional hater of the Greens ever since they went full identity politics and I’ve argued that the average Australian isn’t as chronically online and obsessed with Gaza as people here are
To quote myself:
They can go fuck themselves to be honest
This is after voting for them either #1 or #2 since my first election back in 2007 (Kevin07)
I expect the Greens will gain votes and maybe even a seat or two
😛
One Nation’s rise in popularity has nothing to do with greeny lefties
You’re right, I didn’t say that though :P since the election I’ve been saying that the Greens are not growing in size, when the electorate moved left they have stagnated, a party that has 9% of the vote and isn’t growing in this political environment means they have hedged their bets on Gaza instead of things that matter.
Be better… argue a point with regard to reality, and change your mind when the facts change.
Well you certainly burnt that straw man :P
- Comment on Bendigo Mosque set to open 10 years on from hostile protests 5 weeks ago:
hey mate
just so you know why you won’t see me anymore im blocking you
not because of your opinion but because you add nothing, just yelling racist does nothing for me
btw the lefts embrace of islam is one of the most confusing and regressive moves ive ever seen, which probably explains how insane it is to read one nation is now polling ahead of the greens:
The latest Essential poll in September put One Nation’s primary vote at 13%, ahead of the Greens on 11%
theguardian.com/…/the-ground-is-shifting-whats-dr…
anyway thanks for nothing
- Comment on Bendigo Mosque set to open 10 years on from hostile protests 1 month ago:
😔
- Comment on Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report 1 month ago:
That’d be a great use of AI, just use it and don’t bother paying Deloitte
Tax payer saved billions
- Comment on Governments keep making our housing crisis worse – and they’ve just done it again 1 month ago:
Apart from a small blip of courage in 2016 and 2019, when the Labor opposition floated it as a policy (and the resulting scare campaign having since zapped any backbone from Labor for any necessary reforms), every government and would-be government has followed suit.
YES, it wasn’t just a scare campaign, they lost both elections and in 2019 lost an “unlosable election”, you can’t say it zapped any backbone when they showed backbone and then LOST because of it. This is a clear indication that Australians don’t want to lose the very things you are saying are the problem! Welcome to politics! it sucks!
I don’t understand why it mentions only the first home owners and LMI change but not the HAFF which is slowly working its way through the system?
- Comment on Two Australian women and four children escape Syrian detention camp and flee to Victoria 1 month ago:
the lack of laws to convict them?
- Comment on Albanese invites Arab 'hypermarket' to compete with Coles and Woolworths 1 month ago:
ThatKamGuy mentioned the price cycle, here’s an article on it:
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-26/…/104470674
But yeah I switched to Aldi’s “regal cola” instead of buying coke, Aldi has it nice and low cost all the time
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 1 month ago:
yeah I was looking to setup a piefed instance just to keep touch on how much admin is involved but I can barely commit myself to mod, let alone run a server in my spare time
- Comment on I feel like there's been a sudden influx on new active aussie.zone users. Coincidence, or did something happen? 1 month ago:
afaik we’re still around 150~ visits per day, it’s just us in here 😄 i suspect until the admins agree to list the site on google/bing growth will be negative/sideways
- Comment on Three people died after Optus network failure impacted triple-0 calls 1 month ago:
Forget tech, compare them to Macca’s. Imagine a service outage that meant Macca’s couldn’t sell you burgers today. You’d shrug and take your business elsewhere.
Kinda yeah but nah, I see this with apps like Duolingo where people bitch endlessly about it, I’m like if you hate it so much just go use another app :| why are you rewarding them with your subscription money if you hate it so much?
But Telcos are regulated by these guys:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Australian_Communications_and_…
We recently had this requirement (thanks to Optus 🫥) handed to us all:
acma.gov.au/rules-significant-and-major-outages
If we want to make sure we don’t get fined we all agree to implement this rule (despite being a pain in the ass) and all the other rules they set for us
the equivalent would be regulations that Maccas have to agree to in order to sell burgers, so I assume it would be something like food safety standards? www.health.gov.au/…/food-standards-and-safety
So if Maccas screw up and violate one of these standards then they fined and if it was a big enough issue where multiple people died I assume they’d be dragged before the government for a please explain and maybe even shut down until the issue was fixed
- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 1 month ago:
ah good point
had a look in the mod logs but looks like he’s deleting his account? or if you get banned and then delete your account does that remove it from the mod logs?
I can see one of his other accounts but ChocolatChaud doesn’t seem to show up anywhere
- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 1 month ago:
Oh I thought you or one of the admins was the one banning him? or is he deleting his account?
His latest one looks gone to me:
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- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 1 month ago:
there’s someone who keeps making bots that just flood everywhere with articles
previously known as
Chocolat_Chaud@lemmy.ca
fraiserouge@lemmy.world
TheDwZ@lemmy.world
Davriellelouna@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump accuses ABC journalist of ‘hurting Australia’ and says he’ll report him to Albanese 1 month ago:
Why are you doing this?
