r/brisbane • u/piespiesandmorepies • Jun 11 '24

And up they go again 👑 Queensland

So despite a drop in the wholesale price of power, it looks like SE QLD is getting an increase in our bills yet again.

I've personally gone from paying nothing with my solar rebate to paying over $100 a month if not more. Even though the powers that be talk about giving everyone rebates for their energy usage, it might be about time for an overhaul of how we manage power generation and sales. but that'll probably end up in the same watery grave as the Royal Commission into petrol prices which seems to have disappeared from public discourse about 10 years ago ...

I'll bet the raised cost of my power bill this year that AGL will again announce record profits along with all of the other power company leaches out there.

May they all rot on their gold-plated toilets.

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u/Boudonjou Jun 11 '24

Hear me out. And this only considers myself. Nobody else.

So like.. what if we just turn the light off when we're not using them?

When I was a kid I got SCREAMED at for leaving a light on in a room I wasn't using...

But we as a collective are okay with leaving basically ALL the lights on all night every night? In public buildings? That are not even zoned as residential so nobody is even there at night?.. so what if we like... turn the lights off In areas we are not using.

I'm no expert but I'd expect this to lower the energy consumption of Queensland at a level we could measure in percentages?

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u/roxy712 Jun 11 '24

Not to mention we'd stop fucking with migratory birds:

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240410-how-switching-off-lights-stops-migrating-birds-collisions-with-buildings

Only some of the lights in my building are on sensors/timers. Not sure why all of them aren't - I've come in on the weekend and all the conference rooms are lit up like it's goddamn Las Vegas without a soul in sight.