You’re replying in a thread about energy prices dropping because of renewable energy.
Do you accept I am an Australian resident retail customer telling you I am not seeing any change in my $/kWh price, nor any offers from my any providers offering lower prices and higher solar input price than the plan I’m on now.
It doesn’t matter if wholesale prices are zero unless energy retailers are willing to compete to drive prices lower.
And they’re not. It’s a regulated market here in Australia.
They’re not really adding value in the same way a farm & associated agribusiness > harvest > global storage and distribution > mill > commercial scale bakery > distribution > retail outlet does.
This reminds me of an amusing comment I read or heard the other day: eggs are now more expensive than chickens. Somethings not right there. And it’s mostly higher costs of energy, and extremely stupid egg production regulations.
Australia could be a manufacturing powerhouse off the back of very steeply subsidised energy. China does it.
But instead we seem to be bent on whatever the fuck this is supped to be?
Energy so expensive ya can’t use it.
Or you could do the same with Solar and have more money left over. Having a subsidy rarely works out well, but subsidizing an inefficient system is making two different mistakes.