Has this gone through yet? I’m about to change suppliers and they are already going to charge me $50+ a year more for the supply charge because I have solar. I am going to call them to see why they’re charging this; it seems to me a way to claw back some of the measly retail feed-in tariff I get.

Having built and lived in an off-the-grid house in the USA, I can say that if you intend to go off-grid you really, really have to do a cost-benefit analysis and be totally realistic about your lifestyle – ie, unnecessary power use, number/type of appliances, peak load times, even (in my opinion) the size of your house. Unless you have money to burn, of course. I haven’t looked seriously at storage because I’m retired and can’t justify the up-front cost but will keep my eye on it. New technology is so expensive…

OFF the Grid is looking more and more attractive re the Tesla PowerWall. Once that happens one can drop the connection all together. No connection NO CHARGE.

IF they want to do this then they can pay more for the power that is put into the grid by solar.

They should be paying me with constant power interuptions and spikes 3 in one day and one weeks was 2 every day pee’d off with ressiting the clocks all the time which eventually smoked my inverter and i had to have it repaired even more incentive for OFFGRID.

With Holden about to vacate the Elizabeth plant soon, shouldn’t we be gearing up to produce our own Tesla powerwalls. We have the space. We have the workforce.

I’m with you Margaret, I’m hanging out for the Tesla Powerwall to get here then I’m going completely off grid.

Greed…..nothing else to add

I will go off the grid as soon as soon as the Tesla battery becomes available. These big corporations just farm ordinary battlers who want the best for the future of their families

I think it’s time to go off the grid.

They are a thieving, money hungry foreign company who can’t wait to have us completely impoverished and under their control for supplying nothing and wanting us to pay for it.

Off the grid would be great provided they don’t do what happens currently with water/sewerage – you get charged for the pipes going past your property even if you don’t use them!

they are lying thieves ,changing promises as they want

If this goes through, I will seriously consider going off grid as soon as the Tesla battery becomes available. The they get nothing from me.

I cant wait to go off grid!!!!!!!!!

There seems to be more and more incentive to go off grid.