Dan Mercer

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from July when this offer is, you know, going to come into effect.

According to the government and advocates for this scheme, it's all about ensuring households which otherwise wouldn't get access to solar could get some of the benefits of solar power.

So renters, people living in apartments and so on, people who, you know, can't afford solar.

There are some observers who doubt the scheme will work very well.

But, you know, maybe we can have a chat about that a separate time soon once it's been running.

If you can make it work for you, absolutely.

But of course, there'll be trade-offs, right?

You'll get free power in the middle of the day, but presumably they'll need to call that back in higher prices outside of those times.

I mean, we've discussed this here before, Sam.

This transition is going to be a very rocky process.

It certainly has been already.

There'll be times when things seem to be going really well and prices seem to be coming down, as they do now.

But then there'll be other times, as we've seen more than once before, where things go crazy and prices rocket.

I mean, hopefully we're through the rockiest part already, but I think it'd be a brave person to wager that right now.

As mentioned already, prices are not going to go back to the way they used to be when we ran almost solely on cheap coal.

We had very low power prices, but we're just not going to go back there.

That's not going to happen.

In the long run, a better question might be whether our energy costs come down.

In other words, if we no longer have to pay for petrol or diesel for our cars or gas for our heating or cooking, and we can run everything on electricity, will our energy bills be lower?