Carolinian
TUG Member
Australia will provide electricity for free during afternoon hours
Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.www.abc.net.au
Not something Carolinian's Aussie buddies want to talk about
Intermittent energy is a feast or famine proposition. At certain times you can have too much of it and have to get rid of it to keep the grid stable. At others, it craps out when it is needed and power has to be bought on the very expensive spot market to replace it. Both inefficiencies cost money, directly or indirectly. The overproduction times mean having to run other power sources as "peakers" making their production more expensive than it would be without the intermittent source. I guess when your intermittent energy source gives too much power for a brief period of the day which would otherwise overload the system, giving it away encourages more people to use it then and helps get rid of it. But there are other ways this is done. In the UK, the "green energy" sources are just paid not to produce it during those periods, and the cost of paying them off is added to consumers power bills.
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