Thank you for this article about rooftop solar. I don't understand why industrial curtailment is good in Australia when prices are low. We have gone ahead and asked for a project at our home to replace the roof to a solar installation. I am just wondering if everyone does this, and generates more of their own energy, who is going to pay for the upkeep of the grid? In our sparsely populated region, they don't keep up the hard telephone lines anymore because everyone went to cellular. I understand that won't happen with electricity, but the idea is the same. How do you keep people from freeloading off of the grid infrastructure. For example, the specialist said that the overall number of kilowatts we will need to buy in will drop by a third. That means we pay one third less to the grid operator.
Thank you for this article about rooftop solar. I don't understand why industrial curtailment is good in Australia when prices are low. We have gone ahead and asked for a project at our home to replace the roof to a solar installation. I am just wondering if everyone does this, and generates more of their own energy, who is going to pay for the upkeep of the grid? In our sparsely populated region, they don't keep up the hard telephone lines anymore because everyone went to cellular. I understand that won't happen with electricity, but the idea is the same. How do you keep people from freeloading off of the grid infrastructure. For example, the specialist said that the overall number of kilowatts we will need to buy in will drop by a third. That means we pay one third less to the grid operator.