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From: john larkin <jl@glen--canyon.com>
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Subject: Re: The Spanish Grid Drop-out - recently released information.
Date: Sun, 11 May 2025 07:09:29 -0700
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On Sun, 11 May 2025 20:38:51 +1000, Chris Jones
<lugnut808@spam.yahoo.com> wrote:

>On 11/05/2025 4:18 pm, Bill Sloman wrote:
>>> I believe that there are some new regulations in at least one 
>>> Australian state, driven by the (fossil-fuel-stoked) fear of "too much 
>>> solar destabilising the grid", which require new home solar inverters 
>>> to stop exporting power, unless they receive continuous "permission to 
>>> export" signals from our overlords, the network operators. 
>> 
>> It is cruder than that. They've just stopped paying any realistic kind 
>> of feed-in tariff to people with roof-top solar, and as a result 40% of 
>> new roof-top solar in Australia is now being installed with Tesla 
>> Powerwall or similar battery. It more than doubles the cost of the 
>> installation, but reduces the pay-back time for the whole installation 
>> to about seven years, and save you negotiating with your power supplier 
>> about their derisory feed-in tariffs.
>
>
>No, they say:
>
>"What happens if my solar inverter loses internet connectivity?
>
>If your solar inverter loses internet connectivity, the excess energy 
>you export to the grid will automatically be reduced. This ensures it 
>can be safely managed."
>( from here: 
>https://www.energy.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/701911/Emergency-backstop-customer-factsheet-June-2024.pdf 
>)
>
>So if all of the inverters lose internet, which is entirely likely at 
>some point bearing in mind our telcos, we can expect a blackout too, all 
>so that "it can be safely managed." The blackout will no doubt help the 
>telcos to get back online promptly. Fun times ahead.
>

Electric power used to be reliable and affordable.