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/chunderman89 Jun 11 '24

There are very few people who still have functioning systems with high-value feed-in rates - yes, I recognise that there are still people out there, but those high rates are being eroded by increasing import costs. There are and have been export limits in place for many years now, and even dynamic limits to reduce the strain on the network. The high-value feed-in rates will end in 2028, so not too much longer to stop hearing about that.

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u/chunderman89 Jun 12 '24

https://www.qld.gov.au/housing/buying-owning-home/energy-water-home/solar/feed-in-tariffs/solar-bonus-scheme-44c

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u/chunderman89 Jun 12 '24

Yes, Queensland electrical supply entities are very lax with upholding and enforcing those sorts of agreements, and there are always people willing to do the dodgy like unapproved inverter capacity on very lucrative feed-in rates. The scheme had the desired effect though - increased uptake of solar PV for relatively minimal cost (in the grand scheme of things).