Australians to Get Three Hours of Free Electricity Every Day Under Solar Scheme

I remember reading about the advent of nuclear power, which was supposed to be "too cheap to meter", but it never materialized.

My taks is that "free" always, always correlates with bad behavior. I think people might just heat their pool with resistive electricity. Or air condition their backyard.

> By 2030 most countries will have spot power prices of zero in sunny hours. This will be passed on to end consumers, to encourage them to shift power demand to sunny periods by electric vehicle and battery charging, preheating, precooling, etc.

https://bsky.app/profile/solarchase.bsky.social/post/3m3mdc5...

So Australia is just ahead of the curve, as it generally is with solar.

From a theaustralian.com.au media article ".... The trouble with this thought bubble is that there are some major complications that haven’t been thought through. Just because the wholesale price is often low or negative during the middle of the day doesn’t remove the need for the fixed infrastructure costs – over 40 per cent of the retail bill – to be covered.

If retailers and gentailers (the companies that own generators as well as have retail arms) can’t cover these fixed costs during the “free” three-hour period, then prices at other times of the day will have to be jacked up......

That's one problem