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Now they want to charge households for exporting solar electricity to the grid — it'll send the system backwards

  • Written by Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
Now they want to charge households for exporting solar electricity to the grid — it'll send the system backwards zstock/Shutterstock

It’s come to this. The Australian Energy Markets Commission has produced a draft decision that will make households and small business with solar panels pay to inject their surplus production into the grid.

It suggests an annual charge of about A$100 per solar-connected household.

The arrangement will only apply to small...

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