Solar customers not subsidising others

Jun 06, 2013, updated May 08, 2025

AUSSIE KANCK: Re InDaily’s storyabout SA Power Networks claiming that people with solar energy were responsible for other people paying more for electricity and that those with solar power were not paying their “fair” share of costs.

Read the energy bills explained brochure from the Australian Energy Regulator, and you will see in the document that “green energy” cost is actually the smallest fraction of the costs that make up an electricity bill.

If you check other documents from the Energy Regulator you will find that people with PV systems in SA have actually been responsible for a reduction of 1.8% in the wholesale price of electricity here – and wholesale prices are the second greatest fraction of electricity prices.

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