Two-way tariff for households with rooftop solar
Solar Citizens does not support two-way tariffs on households who generate their own cheap, clean energy from rooftop solar.
Households with existing rooftop solar are doing the energy grid a favour by exporting cheap, clean solar that their neighbours can use. We should be removing barriers for more households to go solar, not introducing penalties."
If these tariffs are designed to encourage battery uptake, then this is a blunt, heavy-handed approach. Instead of penalties, the Federal Government must incentivise batteries through providing rebates, like they have for rooftop solar.
Rooftop solar provides the most economical possible energy to customers and everyone in Australia should have access to the cost-saving benefits of solar, regardless of their postcode, or whether they rent or live in an apartment or social housing.
Rooftop solar delivers an average annual household bill savings of $1,390 each year continuing for the operational lifetime of the solar PV systems, usually 20 years or more.
