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Sparty
07-03-2014, 04:59 AM
http://reneweconomy.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/aemo-solar-price-590x371.jpg (http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/solar-sends-energy-prices-zero-middle-day-63767)

The graph above from the Australian Energy Market Operator shows, demand (the green line) in the middle of the day is plunging in between the appliance-driven morning and evening peaks. This came as the output of solar increased to around 60 per cent of its capacity, accounting for more than 10 per cent of demand and sending out more than 600MW of capacity at certain times. Read full article
(http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/solar-sends-energy-prices-zero-middle-day-63767)
Now imagine that in the winter we have a daylight saving time shift of one hour and in the summer two hours. This would see a huge amount of solar being used at exactly the right time for home owners and exactly the time that our energy providers make their biggest profits.

So I wonder if this is the reason for the "war on solar"? Will the LNP have time to knock it (solar) off before we get daylight saving? As the result of getting daylight saving will be that the "gold plating" that our electricity providers have indulged in would get turned to brass.

My view "POWER to the PEOPLE"