• nonentity@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    This has already been functionally negated by the increase in retail access and usage rates.

    It’s also fundamentally a vehicle to transfer wealth to those who have the option, and can afford, to install home batteries. The poor, renters, and poor renters are the ones who are forced to subsidise it.

    • Hule@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      I suppose if it were financially viable, they would build out storage on large scale.

  • Willy@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    This is cool until you realize it’s just someone’s old leftover electricity. You could eat for free if you worked at a restaurant and ate table scraps too.

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      8 days ago

      Hey who’s so high and mighty they are knocking table scraps back in my day we had to wait for the dogs to finish

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexus
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    8 days ago

    As if, it’s just a ploy to get everyone hooked to the network and then start raking in the cash once the suckers have nowhere else to go.