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Energy experts slam plan to charge households supplying solar to the grid – Sydney Morning Herald
Proposed rules will unfairly allow energy network companies to address declining revenue at the expense of customers generating solar power, experts say.
The energy policy director for the Public Interest Advocacy Centre Craig Memery said cost-reflective pricing reforms, which have stalled over the past decade, would have helped address the issues currently affecting the grid.
Those reforms have been resisted, most by ill-informed lobbyists, including some solar proponents, and ironically at the expense of solar owners now facing the second-best option put forward by the AEMC today.
He said current energy pricing was inequitable as it does not factor…
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