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Tony Martyr's avatar

Useful analysis - this is genuinely a live discussion here in WA, with an enormous media, government & general "elite opinion" push to have everyone believe exactly the sort of nonsense you pull apart here. There is a very large take-up of rooftop solar in Perth because of the huge subsidies and the instinctive WA feel that "it's sunny here a lot", so it must be right. Simple, obvious, wrong. The same "feeling" has supported a solar hot water business that's always been problematic, particularly on whole of life costs. And the relatively short life of these systems will start to come home to roost in the next 5-10 years, before all the network problems are solved but after a lot of money has been spent.

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Critical Uncertainties's avatar

Nice, would be interesting to compare to South Australia which is much further along the RE path (around 70% IIRC).

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