Well we now all have revised electricity costs - market forces due to many reasons. It's really just the old expression you can't have you're cake and eat it. With the wider Australian community quite reasonably interested in reducing carbon foot print we seem to also want to not pay for it. I would point to all that out the most significant way everyone can contribute to reducing the carbon footprint is to use less energy in both power consumed, fossil fuels used and unnecessary purchases of products (that all require energy to produce and dispose of). Regarding energy costs it seem user pays is a pretty fair basis for such a essential and totally wide based cost
.....but......
Having invested significantly in a solar array and modifying our power usage habits we have achieved a great outcome of living in a large house with a average power usage well less than a single dwelling home in our area. We feed in more than 4 times the power we use (but have the usual import usage overnight and in overcast days) . Now with necessarily increased generation costs we will pay our share based on usage but where is the commensurate increased reward for our contribution back to the grid in our considerable solar feed in. This appears incredible inequitable. The gradually increasing solar feed in gives the energy market flexibility to reduce fossil fuel energy generation but those who have contributed are getting an reducing relative benefit. A cynic could conclude there is a emerging and progressively developing exploitation of those trying to reduce their energy usage
