Electricity bill - WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

[mudnut]

$480 for 3 months, townsville, qld

Ouch, that's gotta hurt.

[MudRunnerTD]

$480 for 3 months, townsville, qld

Wow!! Mine is Double that in Lara Victoria!! Seriously!

[taslucas]

Depends how much you use I suppose. I like to turn things off and I have a very small house so my bill is much less than my friends.

But you can all get farqued! Tassie had %100 clean hydro electricity that was priced ok BEFORE they connected that damn bass link. Now you Victorians steal all our power to up the percentage of renewable energy in your grid and WE PAY MORE!? WTF!!!!!!??????

[Winnie]

Depends how much you use I suppose. I like to turn things off and I have a very small house so my bill is much less than my friends.

But you can all get farqued! Tassie had %100 clean hydro electricity that was priced ok BEFORE they connected that damn bass link. Now you Victorians steal all our power to up the percentage of renewable energy in your grid and WE PAY MORE!? WTF!!!!!!??????

Back in your box where you belong. MY POWER NOW.

Trying to use Motorculture

[taslucas]

Back in your box where you belong. MY POWER NOW.

Trying to use Motorculture

You can have some if you come down and see where it comes from:-)

[Drew]

Wow!! Mine is Double that in Lara Victoria!! Seriously!

You're paying the tool allowance

[patrolmq]

Has any one toyed with the idea of setting up a stand alone power set up ? Cost outlay etc

yes, I got half way there in the summer. I'm renting so can't do as much as I'd like, but with a large 4 bed house, wife and 2 kids, I managed to generate and store about half of my usage in the summer (and that includes split aircon usage, otherwise it would have been up to about 80%). Spent about $1k on the setup, did it myself. Powered all the house (including washing machine which also gets its hot water from a solar water heater) except for the kitchen (oven, micro, kettle) and split aircon. It's a removable system, that we can take with us if we move. Just an indication of what's possible, prices will continue to come down for solar, with efficiency going up as new tech is developed.

[patrolmq]

Depends how much you use I suppose. I like to turn things off and I have a very small house so my bill is much less than my friends.

But you can all get farqued! Tassie had %100 clean hydro electricity that was priced ok BEFORE they connected that damn bass link. Now you Victorians steal all our power to up the percentage of renewable energy in your grid and WE PAY MORE!? WTF!!!!!!??????

sorry about that, I'm with momentum who I believe at Tas based using renewable energy (so I get the carbon tax refunded). I'll ask them why the local Tasmanians now have to pay more.

Still not as bad as the UK, who sold all their power stations to the French who then subsidised their own citizens to bring their bills down whilst increasing the bills for the British. (sorry, it is as bad, but just on a more insignificant scale LOL!!)

[AB]

yes, I got half way there in the summer. I'm renting so can't do as much as I'd like, but with a large 4 bed house, wife and 2 kids, I managed to generate and store about half of my usage in the summer (and that includes split aircon usage, otherwise it would have been up to about 80%). Spent about $1k on the setup, did it myself. Powered all the house (including washing machine which also gets its hot water from a solar water heater) except for the kitchen (oven, micro, kettle) and split aircon. It's a removable system, that we can take with us if we move. Just an indication of what's possible, prices will continue to come down for solar, with efficiency going up as new tech is developed.

Hey mate, if you get a chance I would love to find out more...lol

[NP99]

Lets convert to LPG, rebate it, then up the pump price of LPG!