Australian energy retailers must offer three hours of free daytime electricity

Post by hsb3 » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 8:54 AM UTC

abrookewood wrote: post #77

With 3 hours of free power, a 15kW inverter and a 42kWh battery, I could almost do away with my solar panels and just survive of free grid power. I do have a 15kW solar panel set up, but I get very little from selling anything back to the grid.

Post by tiew9Vii » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 8:57 AM UTC

Post by jaza » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 8:59 AM UTC

Post by Havoc » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 9:06 AM UTC

BLKNSLVR wrote: post #2

Edited to add: Clarification required in the title that the free energy is only between 11am and 2pm Very interested to see how this turns out. Ultimately we want the transition to benefit both consumers and producers / distributors (the industry). The problem from the rapid uptake of solar in Australia has been an over-supply during this 10/11am to 2/3pm period. If that over-supply is suitably encouraged to be soake…

Post by jofzar » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 9:09 AM UTC

mchusma wrote: post #14

Incentivizing usage during peak times makes total sense, but if price swings are this wild, how are grid scale batteries not highly economical? My rough ballpark math was that you need roughly 20 kilowatts of battery storage to make this issue basically nonexistent, and that would cost about 10 billion dollars, which doesn't seem that much for this.