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duk3luk3 | 6 years ago

What are you comparing Australia's electricity to to call it cheap?

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taneq|6 years ago

Our wholesale power prices are actually quite low. Residential power is expensive because rooftop solar is putting the economics of maintaining the grid into a death spiral.

BLKNSLVR|6 years ago

Rooftop solar became popular because residential electricity prices were so high.

Look up gold-plating poles and wires.

The grid death spiral is a long way off. It's also something that could have been mitigated by the networks themselves if they'd had any economists worth their salt.

phs318u|6 years ago

Please support your claim with some evidence. I worked in the contestable electricity distribution business for 8 years from 2001 to 2009 and I can assure that your claim is complete bollocks.