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Reminder to Compare Energy Providers, and the AUS GOV website is pretty good (www.energymadeeasy.gov.au)

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https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au/ My current provider, like all of them, jacked up my leccy prices in July, but a bit too far for my liking. The Gov comparison site, which I used last time, is still pretty good and you dont need to give your data to private corps lile iselect / meerkat. Hopefully a considerable saving on the new provider, but sill not as cheap as last years prices.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see what you mean, but it's our power and we're providing it back to them, we should get to charge them the same rate they're charging us for the same resource.

If you get solar, can you disable feeding back into the grid?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it should be somewhere in between the rate of a normal generator and the rate you pay, as it's unlikely your power needs to go over the transmission network, it's more likely it just goes over distribution to another local user. However I do understand why it's paid out at the wholesale generation price as (for example) a solar farm would.

As far as disabling it, why would you want to? You can install things like a battery to store it so you can use it later, but if you didn't have that and weren't using all the power then you may as well feed it back into the grid. You only feed in the stuff you haven't used. It's not like you sell it to them then pay for that same power again.

You may as well get the couple of dollars + provide that renewable power for someone else to use.