Power bill discounts worth hundreds on offer as electricity providers feel the heat
Power bill discounts worth hundreds on offer as electricity providers feel the heat - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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Power bill discounts worth hundreds on offer as electricity providers feel the heat
Power bill discounts worth hundreds on offer as electricity providers feel the heat - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
^^ scam
Consumer group CHOICE has recommended changing plans at least once a year to get the lowest power bills.
Spokesman Tom Godfrey said after 12 months providers might roll customers onto general contracts with higher costs.
"When the discount period runs out or if you miss a payment, you don't want to end up paying through the nose," he said.
Our daughter just got her solar rebate raised from 6 to 17 + a 5% power charge cut by Origin, so there are deals out there.
https://www.aer.gov.au/system/files/...h%202018_0.PDF
Comparing the levelized cost of energy technologies
Some interesting articles , i will have to read them again A.H to get my head around it all
I am thinking the big difference is dispatchabilty, if you want 1,000 Mwh tomorow for 12 hours to plug a hole , who can guarantee deliverably, it used to be Coal, maybe tomorrow it will be Snowy 2.0 or Tassie, possibly gas if the price is right. It certainly wont be wind or Solar , and syncing ? the network so we get that nice smooth power
It will be the company which has a fully charged battery bank it can turn on at the flick of a switch.
Another storm cell not dissimilar to the 2016 one is approaching SA. I'll be watching the weather radar as it approaches.
Bureau Home > South Australia Severe Weather Warning
IDS21037
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
South Australia
TOP PRIORITY FOR IMMEDIATE BROADCAST
Severe Weather Warning
for DAMAGING WINDS
For people in Adelaide Metropolitan, Mount Lofty Ranges, Lower Eyre Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, Mid North, Kangaroo Island and parts of West Coast, Eastern Eyre Peninsula, Murraylands and Upper South East districts.
Issued at 4:11 pm Tuesday, 20 November 2018.
Windy conditions developing over parts of SA during Wednesday.
Did SA survive? Hope no electricity towers fell over.
Don't worry - Qld has plenty of power to help SA out if needed.