Australia has so much solar that it’s offering everyone free electricity

[Anonymous]

PERTH, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power every day to households including those without solar panels under an energy-saving programme that is expected to go live in 2026, energy minister Chris Bowen said on Tuesday.
The Solar Sharer programme will begin in the states of New South Wales and South Australia as well as southeast Queensland before it is expanded elsewhere

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/australia-offer-three-hours-free-solar-per-day-millions-2025-11-04/

Australia generates too much electricity during peak times for solar. The huge increase in residential solar installations has created a record drop in demand during peak generation times. They hope this will shift how residential power use during the day.

Unlike here where we have to pay for data centers!

[Anonymous]

Wow, we should do this in Minnesota and North Dakota…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, we should do this in Minnesota and North Dakota…

Glad you like being taxed with higher electricity cost for data centers. Guess the data center millionaires and billionaires can’t pay for this themselves? Why do data centers pay 1/2 of what residential use pay?

[Anonymous]

This is time variable pricing to balance load.

It's common in the US.

[Anonymous]

Even more wonderful than banning Candace. Two stars for Australia.

[Anonymous]

This could be us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, we should do this in Minnesota and North Dakota…

Glad you like being taxed with higher electricity cost for data centers. Guess the data center millionaires and billionaires can’t pay for this themselves? Why do data centers pay 1/2 of what residential use pay?

Climate matters

[Anonymous]

texas also does this. but only for texans

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, we should do this in Minnesota and North Dakota…

I just want to make sure.

Is your argument that we shouldn’t do it because there might be places where it wouldn’t be optimal?

I just want to know how dumb you are.

[Anonymous]

But Trump wants us down in the mines digging coal and partying like it's 1899.

FFS why are we stuck with this idiot's ideas and why don't Republicans display some common sense and speak up?

The mid-terms can't come fast enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, we should do this in Minnesota and North Dakota…

Once we are rid of maga -we can!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, we should do this in Minnesota and North Dakota…

We have a lot of desert space where this would make sense. Alas, the GOP are just morons and we are losing out to every other country in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, we should do this in Minnesota and North Dakota…

I'm pretty sure those places don't get nearly as much sun as Australia. Solar electricity would be much more expensive there. Just calculating daylight hours. Not to mention it actually rains there. But, hey if you're thinking it's just useless land, go for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, we should do this in Minnesota and North Dakota…

I'm pretty sure those places don't get nearly as much sun as Australia. Solar electricity would be much more expensive there. Just calculating daylight hours. Not to mention it actually rains there. But, hey if you're thinking it's just useless land, go for it.

Solar is plenty viable in Minnesota and North Dakota. It is even more viable in California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. There is no reason there isn't miles of solar farms feeding the national grid, other than leadership.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

PERTH, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Australia will offer at least three hours of free solar power every day to households including those without solar panels under an energy-saving programme that is expected to go live in 2026, energy minister Chris Bowen said on Tuesday.
The Solar Sharer programme will begin in the states of New South Wales and South Australia as well as southeast Queensland before it is expanded elsewhere

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/australia-offer-three-hours-free-solar-per-day-millions-2025-11-04/

Australia generates too much electricity during peak times for solar. The huge increase in residential solar installations has created a record drop in demand during peak generation times. They hope this will shift how residential power use during the day.

Unlike here where we have to pay for data centers!

Australian has about the same land mass of America with 10% of the population.

Not gonna happen in the US.