For the first time in days, the sun has been shining. Hurray! Apart from being good for the garden, and for my spirits, that should charge up my battery.
All was going swimmingly until about 12:30, when the battery stopped charging at about 74% full.
What’s going on here? The sun is still shining away merrily. So the poanels are generating away. However, it seems that some algorithm is now diverting pretty all of the excess power from my solar panels to the grid, instead of charging my battery up to 100%.
I wonder if it’s anything to do with this? The majority of the power being generated right now in the other States is from burning coal. Except for Tasmania, which is lucky enough to have hydro.
What about poor old South Australia? Well, there is some wind around today, which is good. But not good enough. A significant proportion of the power generation that the State needs right now is what they call “small solar”.
I guess this means me.
When I put solar panels on my roof, and install a battery, it was not one moment because I supported the aims of the previous State government, which literally dynamited the State’s existing coal-fired power station capacity into a pile of rubble. Utterly bonkers! It was because there were, and are, thus so many power cuts here that I needed a means of continuing to be able to work during those power cuts.
Governments do what governments do. Having forced us into putting solar panels on our roofs to mitigate against their own incompetence, they now nick the power thereby produced when they need it to fill the gap caused by that same incompetence. Surprise surprise.
phenell 