• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
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    12 days ago

    Also requires you to sign up to their plans that offer it, which will come with many caveats and higher prices/fees.

    Power companies aren’t in the business of losing money.

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      11 days 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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        10 days ago

        And when they have to give it away for 0c a kw for 3 hours, they’ll charge you 45c a kw every other hour of the day.

        Plus a daily smart meter fee. Plus a daily free electricity fee. Plus a daily VPP fee.

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            8 hours ago

            Absolutely, but that’s prohibitively expensive for most households unfortunately. It also wouldn’t surprise me if the government eventually makes going off-grid illegal as their “net zero” plan relies on basically every household having solar and batteries that the power companies leech from to power the entire grid.

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            8 hours ago

            I’m just saying what happen. The government even said that power companies will likely make up for the losses of those 3 hours by increasing prices in the other hours.