they forget a lot when doing things like this, people that rent will never have solar. the people that cant afford to own solar. so what I'm saying is this the government haven't got it correct first with the concession rates for low income earner's. I get it and all they can do now is up the supply charge to customers if the company's are used to x amount of money then someone put up solar to save money then the poor people have to foot the bill and the supply charge goes up. the other thing missing in this information is are there gonna be less jobs or more created by changing the system. are we just getting rid of fuel stations and replace with power on the pump will this increase or decrease jobs ? what about the maintenance and the requirement to keep all this working with out problems.

I glad we are considering multi methods of energy generation. Having the grid in such a fashion to top up home generated & supported by battery storage needs to be explored. I understand that while at present I can feed my solar contributions into the grid, when there is a power black out that power source can't be accessed for personal use. Before electric cars can be widely used, we need more charging points around the state. Friends have just purchased a fully electric car but can't drive it beyond the metro area as limited charging points are available.

I am deeply suspicious of any energy provider and strongly suspect that they do not have my best interests at heart. I was an early adopter of solar panels and saw how energy providers and government demonized solar panel owners as causing the price rises in electricity - I've seen how government and media jumped on the anti renewables band wagon when the SA blackout occurred which had nothing to do with the energy source. And I have seen how energy providers are panicking over how they can maintain their income as consumers look for alternative, independent energy solutions eg solar panels and battery. What I'd like to see is a non-profit co-operative set up that solar panel owners can join and as one entity collectively bid in the energy market so we can get a fair price for our generated KWH.