We are sick of the arseholes that are running the power companies, and we are sick of the outrageous prices they are charging for electricity.

Simple as that.

10 years ago, my gas bill was $80 a month. Today (and nothing has changed) it is almost $300 a month. Same shit has happened with Electricity and water. They are fucking scum.

They can go fuck themselves. If there was a free version of gas like electricity, I would install it in an instant. (I only use gas for kitchen hob, my BBQ outside - both of which get fuck all use, and my hot water which only really gets used when I wash my balls in the morning.) 300% price hike in 10 years.... They can all suck my balls,

Just read the same article about CA last week; too much solar to be used so the excess solar generated, get this, was sold-often at a loss--to Arizona(the fact AZ can't make it's own sufficient solar shows the willful neglect, economic and political nature of energy!) and it lowered AZ bills but not CA. We're back to energy traders and Enron price manipulations in the US after 20 years.

Batteries will fix much of it but until the grid has proper storage consumers getting fucked by businesses per usual.

Every smart person told them, "update the grids before adding solar."

But did they listen? No. Because updating the grids was an expensive and difficult endeavour and they just wanted to lower their costs first.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, this feels like a good place for Hydrogen power to step in.

One of the oft repeated concerns is that generating hydrogen to power vehicles the takes a lot of energy, which often comes from dirty sources.

One of the oft repeated issues for solar (or wind etc) is that it's available at certain times and not in and of itself storable or transportable, so excess is lost.

So, take the excess solar energy, produce hydrogen and store for off-peak times or to distribute.

Seems like a win to me.

Good for them! Theoretically that should attract industries that need a lot of electricity and everything balances out cost and demand wise.

How about investing in grid energy storage, to cope with intermittent production?

Yeah I'm getting to that point where I'm willing to pay more to install solar, and a battery or two, just so I don't pay electrical providers as much each quarter.

No such thing as too much solar to anyone but an oil man

That's what hydrogen production from water electrolysis is for.

Australia has too many electricity distributors shipping profits overseas instead of upgrading the grid

How else will they be able to continue justify pulling coal out of the ground if they have a robust power grid based on renewables

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-57925798

Not really struggling

All they need to do is subsidise batteries and problem solved

Subsidise home battery systems so that the excess is stored locally instead of going back into the grid.

"Struggling"

V2G and V2H is here, so you'll be able to store there and draw down overnight in a suitable ecar.

A large pumped hydro in Qld has been cancelled by the new Lib government, so won't be able to store it there. Snowy Hydro pumped storage is way behind schedule and locally Redflow went backrupt, so huge Zinc Flow storage batteries arent available to rollout to store excess energy and Lithuim is a shitty choice for large grid batteries.