Australia has high rates of adoption for rooftop solar. The interconnection is easy and permitting happens over night. And best of all, none of the fears associated with wide spread solar have materialized into real world problems.
Australia has high rates of adoption for rooftop solar. The interconnection is easy and permitting happens over night. And best of all, none of the fears associated with wide spread solar have materialized into real world problems.
I don’t know how they justify it but my assumption is that the grid has not been properly maintained and they’re unable to automatically control solar feed in for many areas. Sounds like WA has it right. Maybe will be less of a problem once the snowy 2.0 battery is online in 2027/2028
In NSW there are a huge number of competing retailers, each with their own incompatible smart meters to each other. We had to pick between at least 3 different meters for our place for the solar upgrade even though there is one distributor here
Yikes, that sounds like a mess. In WA we have one fully connected grid (SWIS) and one provider (synergy). Western Power used to be the provider, but now they only run the power stations and maintain the infra. There are multiple electrical generation companies that run power stations, but the customer doesn’t deal directly with them. They all sell power to synergy, who sells it to the customer, and synergy pays western Power to maintain the SWIS.
There are some pockets that live outside the SWIS with a different arrangement but they are a tiny minority.
Synergy is owned by the state govt, so there is a monopoly, but it’s more benevolent to the customer, and hostile to the generators. They do what they can to keep prices low. But the infra is aging, and western Power spends increasingly more each year to maintain it and replace wooden poles. Western Power is also wholly owned by the state govt.
Govt owns 49.6% of Ausgrid here lol, I think the rest is mostly AusSuper