Ah, the ACCC.
“WE WILL STOP COLLUSION BETWEEN THE FUEL COMPANIES”
And yet every day we see them all lift their prices at the exact same time which of course is just a coincidence and amazingly leading into long weekends and school holidays the prices magically go up but that’s just the “regular fuel cycle” apparently.
Bunch of muppets
Should the change to regulations be, those now who add or install new solar need to also add a minimum Storage system?
A lot of people cannot afford storage after they have paid for panels. It is ridiculously overpriced.
You mandate that and people will not buy solar panels.
That’s kind of the point to reduce panels without storage as creates instability in the grid. Don’t want it to be only for the rich though.
Maybe offer 7 year interest free loans from Govt along with purchase of Tesla Powerwalls then. $15k
Aldi Batteries are approx $8K which should be more reasonable price range for budget conscious.
How about the governments find a way to build batteries for storage instead? I would aim to have every home with panels, government/power companies storage facilities with solar/wind farms and no fossil fuels at all required.
1/3 of the population rent. They aren’t buying solar panels and batteries.
Many first home buyers are buying units. They aren’t buying solar panels and batteries.
If you have your own detached house these days you are “rich”.
Basically energy transition policies are for the wealthy.
Electric Car leases - high income earners
Solar panels and Batteries - detached home owners .
There has been very little for apartment owners, renters(eg to say get owners to provide solar to lower their tenants energy costs)
I have paid to install solar to all my rental properties.
It often can help resale value plus able to attract a higher rental rate AND if you have a good accountant you can make it work in your favour.
I personally don’t know a single landlord that has multiple properties who hasn’t had solar fitted to them
The majority of rentals are apartments.
Who knows the stats for rooftop solar on detached rentals as a proportion of all detached homes.
If the landlord has a goal to eventually knock down rebuild a house why would he/she install solar panels?
Or even install unless you were selling.(and even then from experience I don’t think it would increase sales price significantly. Not compared with an extra bedroom for example)
I don’t think there needs to be any government incentives to install solar and batteries. Other than the financial one to use less power than one would otherwise from the grid.
Same for buying an electric vehicle. New EVs are priced almost at equivalent ICE prices - and savings should be based on it being cheaper to charge/maintain than fuel up at the petrol station and pay more on a mechanic.
What would be welcome is just public charging infrastructure. From better “poles and wires”, power plants, and public ev charging facilities.
Perhaps building standards to ensure all apartments blocks have private PowerPoints at each carspace.
Then no one is being locked out. And if you’re making a large 7 figure investment to buy a home - you make your own financial decision to install solar.
Renters and apartment owners shouldn’t need to subsidise you. They are hardly the ones with the means to do so.
No they’re not
Around 70% of the private rental market is houses
Get solar for the money it can can save you. Not for the export money it can ( but no longer really will) earn you. The export tariffs were always going to plummet, it was economically inevitable. Plus, In some areas , the distributors are having real technical issues with rising voltages due to increased private solar and will no longer allow exporting of power anyway. Or the inverter will cycle off in peak times which means no export anyway. If you can afford storage, do so , but imo it’s still too expensive for most situations / clients.
Tim Smith, the former State MP , has resurfaced as an adviser to the Israel Deputy Foreign Minister.
Maybe he’ll be giving tips on driving in Melbourne.
Allan Fels was chairman of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission from its inception in 1995 until 30 June 2003, and he set the tone for the do nothing organisation they are. Prof Fels was a Lecturer at Monash when I did my MBA back in mid 1980s, and he was useless and boring then, so I guess he just followed it on with a bigger paycheck at ACCC. I have listened to Pollies for years who say they cannot do anything about petrol prices, which is BS and only because Treasury get so much money from petrol sales that they have no incentive to do anything.
Stand by for a Mossad hit on the bat population in Kew.
gonna be crashing tanks into the houses on the west bank
Yeah right. I’d assume most homes are houses in Australia by a huge stretch.
But more flats are surely rented out than they are owner occupier.
Either way the idea that solar is available for most people renting is hardly my experience(when I last looked at renting about 5 years ago anyhow). House or apartment.
And if you own or rent a flat your unlikely to be enjoying feed in tariffs/lower energy costs.
And heaps of owners having solar hasn’t exactly brought down energy prices for the rest of us has it?
Its probably made it more expensive if anything for those who don’t have solar.
Have to also think about ‘storage’ and usage a little differently
Electric hot water service is energy storage, so ditch the gas HWS and get a big electric one to save. Doesn’t have to be a heat pump.
Electric vehicle if you can.
Use the solar to run your appliances during the daylight hours.
The elite bat political black ops squad destroyed Tim Smith’s political career with their drink-spiking caper, Netanyahu had better watch himself or they’ll come for him too…
The only policy of note at this election that’s truly egalitarian imho is Labor’s policy to cut the tax rate on the lowest tax bracket.
Giving every single tax payer a tax cut.
Whilst some view that as meagre, that’s fair and good government.
Every person paying for our government is getting tax relief. Paying a little bit less for it on their earnings.
Good policy.
I don’t rate LNPs nuclear - won’t deliver. I don’t rate their business lunch concession - not everyone benefits. I don’t rate their dual citizenship stripping - that’s just offensive and police state crap. I don’t rate raiding super. That will just destroy retirement savings and increase house prices.
I find it very hard to find anything remotely attractive about conservative policy this election.
And I don’t understand how a conservatively minded person sees
what’s attractive in their offerings?
They are going to cut the public service? Could be good for the economy if it increases economic activity - but how?
Could also be bad if it’s essential services.