For years, solar panel owners were paid a premium to feed their electricity into the grid. But that could be about to turn on its head — and they are not happy.
Householders with rooftop solar panels and batteries have reacted with fury to proposals which could see them charged for exporting power to the electricity grid.Some state electricity grids are coming close to reaching their limit for rooftop solarOver the past decade, state governments have actively incentivised households to feed their solar into the grid, by offering generous feed-in tariff schemes. Most have now closed to new entrants.
They argue that under the current system, households without solar could be unfairly burdened with the cost of augmenting power networks to cope with the increase of new panels, which is. "Actual customers themselves are seeing that their inverters are turning off at times because of voltage rising in the network," Mr Roberts told ABC Radio Adelaide."And the renewables industry is getting concerned that networks like ours will have to impose zero limits on new customers so that we can accept those customers, but they won't be able to export.
SA Council of Social Service Chief Executive Ross Womersley said without change, households who cannot afford solar could be unfairly penalised for the cost of maintaining electricity supply."Those non-solar households that don't have the benefits of solar will be left holding the grid and bearing the additional cost," he said.
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