{"id":16051,"date":"2017-11-03T14:51:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T04:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=16051"},"modified":"2024-01-25T13:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T04:05:21","slug":"a-fair-solar-feed-in-tariff-for-australia-is-around-22-cents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/a-fair-solar-feed-in-tariff-for-australia-is-around-22-cents\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fair Solar Feed-In Tariff For Australia Is Around 22 Cents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/fit22c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1068\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solar Feed-In Tariffs Should Be Higher Than They Are &#8212; But Not As High As Some Believe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my not at all humble opinion, Australian solar feed-in tariffs are too damn low!\u00a0 People aren&#8217;t receiving a fair deal for the clean solar energy they export to the grid.\u00a0 This is bad for our nation and the world because with a fairer price we would see more rooftop solar installed which would reduce the damage to our health and our environment from burning fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>But before I am voted leader of the revolution for higher feed-in tariffs and march my armies on Canberra &#8212; or maybe somewhere that&#8217;s actually nice to go &#8212; I should point out that, unlike some people, I don&#8217;t think solar feed-in tariffs should equal the retail cost of electricity.\u00a0 While feed-in tariffs\u00a0 should be higher than they are now, a &#8220;fair&#8221; price is likely to still be less than what most of us are are normally charged for grid electricity.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, this article will probably end up a successful attempt at making the maximum number of people possible disagree with me.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The reason why I believe feed-in tariffs should be higher is because, while they usually take into account the daytime wholesale price of electricity, current solar feed-in tariffs generally don&#8217;t include the value of other benefits rooftop solar provides such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Avoided transmission and distribution costs.<\/li>\n<li>Ancillary services that help stabilize the grid.<\/li>\n<li>Health costs avoided by reducing coal pollution, and&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Environmental damage avoided by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Victoria has taken a step in the right direction by including a payment for avoided carbon emissions in their solar feed-in tariff, but I don&#8217;t think they go nearly far enough.<\/p>\n<h2>This Is Not For People With Old Timey High Feed-in Tariffs!<\/h2>\n<p>If you are sitting in Queensland reading this and you have an older solar system that is getting a 44 cent feed-in tariff, I&#8217;m not fighting for higher or lower feed-in tariffs for you.\u00a0 And if you are one of the small set of Victorians getting a 60 cent<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/a-fair-solar-feed-in-tariff-for-australia-is-around-22-cents\/#en-16051-1' id='enref-16051-1' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(16051)'>1<\/a><\/sup> feed-in tariff, then this article isn&#8217;t about you either.\u00a0 You can just sit back and relax and enjoy your sweet feed-in tariff money rolling in.\u00a0 If you have a 1.5 kilowatt solar system, as most of you do, you could easily be saving over $1.50 a day.\u00a0 That&#8217;s enough to pay for two cheap tubs of ice cream a week.<\/p>\n<p>Those who are beneficiaries of ancient high feed-in tariffs can just wait until everyone else is finished reading this.\u00a0 And no sneaking off to use a mirror to shine extra light onto your solar panels.\u00a0 While technically not illegal, that would be against the spirit of your feed-in tariff agreement.\u00a0 Also, you could fry your system.\u00a0 Not to mention fall off the roof.\u00a0 And you&#8217;d look pretty silly standing up there with a mirror anyway.<\/p>\n<h2>Current High Feed-In Tariffs Are Mostly Con Jobs<\/h2>\n<p>While it may appear that people in South Australia, Victoria, NSW, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energex.com.au\/about-us\/company-information\/our-network\/the-south-east-queensland-electricity-network\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoldCoastBristopia<\/a> are free to shop around for a higher feed-in tariff if they&#8217;re not happy with what they&#8217;re getting, this isn&#8217;t really the case.\u00a0 The problem is, high feed-in tariffs offered by electricity retailers are mostly bullshit.<\/p>\n<p>Plans with high feed-in tariffs normally make up for them with higher costs elsewhere on the bill.\u00a0 These can include higher charges per kilowatt-hour, increased daily supply charges, lower than average discounts, or a combination of all three.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all part of the illusion that has been created to make it appear there is effective competition in the retail electricity market.\u00a0 It works like this:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Convince politicians that competition will reduce electricity prices.<\/li>\n<li>Introduce confusing electricity plans that prevents retail competition from working properly.<\/li>\n<li>Raise electricity prices to cover the cost of managing all this fake competition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>While retail plans are intentionally confusing, some are better than others, so it is possible to benefit from a plan with a higher than average feed-in tariff, particularly if you export a lot of solar electricity.\u00a0 But a while back when I looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/solar-bloggers-head-explodes-looking-for-the-best-electricity-plan\/\">all the electricity plans available<\/a> at the time in Adelaide and Sydney, those that had average feed-in tariffs were often better for solar households than ones with high feed-in tariffs.\u00a0 Plans with high feed-in tariffs are frequently simply con jobs since households won&#8217;t see genuine savings on their electricity bills.<\/p>\n<p>To help you avoid rip-off merchants we have an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/energy\/\">electricity plan comparison tool<\/a> that allows you to enter details from your bills, including how much solar electricity you export, to help you work out which is genuinely the best retail plan for you.<\/p>\n<h2>Victoria Moves In The Right Direction<\/h2>\n<p>Victoria has taken an important step by including a payment for &#8220;value of avoided social cost of carbon&#8221; in their minimum feed in tariff.\u00a0 It&#8217;s shown in the table below, which I took from a report you can download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esc.vic.gov.au\/document\/energy\/52970-minimum-electricity-feed-tariff-apply-1-july-2017-decision-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vicfeedin.jpg\" alt=\"Victoria's Minimum Feed-in Tariff\" width=\"702\" height=\"274\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While 2.5 cents is infinitely better than zero cents, in my opinion the value of avoided carbon emissions is far higher.<\/p>\n<p>Also, they didn&#8217;t include a component for the health benefits of avoided pollution because working it out was apparently too difficult for their poor little brains.\u00a0 As the report states&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/vichealth.jpg\" alt=\"Too Hard, Not Trying\" width=\"723\" height=\"91\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So because they couldn&#8217;t be certain of the amount, they decided not to include it at all.\u00a0 They weren&#8217;t even willing to take a wild stab in the dark &#8212; which would probably still be less of a health threat than breathing coal fumes for thirty years.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found this excuse come up a lot when reading reports on solar feed-in tariff recommendations.\u00a0 It is pathetic.\u00a0 They could at least estimate a reasonable minimum value and refine it later as more information becomes available, but they couldn&#8217;t even manage to do that.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how things would go if I started using this &#8220;too difficult&#8221; excuse in my life?\u00a0 Do you think my bank would be okay with it if I told them the fees and interest on my loan were really hard to work out so I&#8217;ll just pay them what&#8217;s easy to determine and forget about the rest?<\/p>\n<h2>Wholesale Electricity Prices<\/h2>\n<p>Many solar households receive feed-in tariffs that only cover the wholesale cost of electricity or less in some cases.\u00a0 Average wholesale electricity spot prices have been high over the past year and so far this year, when weighted for population, average <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aemo.com.au\/Electricity\/National-Electricity-Market-NEM\/Data-dashboard#average-price-table\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8.3 cents a kilowatt-hour<\/a> in the National Electricity Market (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aemo.com.au\/Electricity\/National-Electricity-Market-NEM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NEM<\/a>)<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/a-fair-solar-feed-in-tariff-for-australia-is-around-22-cents\/#en-16051-2' id='enref-16051-2' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(16051)'>2<\/a><\/sup>.\u00a0 High prices are expected to last for around two or three more years.\u00a0 Spot prices aren&#8217;t the actual cost of wholesale electricity.\u00a0 The real cost is secret.\u00a0 But while spot prices should average a little higher, they are reasonably close to the real price.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16418\" style=\"width: 1313px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16418\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/aemoinfo.jpg\" alt=\"AEMO Info\" width=\"1303\" height=\"211\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16418\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Australian Energy Market Operator (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aemo.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AEMO<\/a>) information on average wholesale spot prices in National Electricity Market states in dollars per megawatt-hour. To get cents per kilowatt-hour divide the figures by 10.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Rather than the average wholesale price, this portion of the solar feed-in tariff should equal the average daytime wholesale price, weighted by the average output of rooftop solar through the day.\u00a0 While solar is pushing down prices during daylight hours, it still produces a considerable amount of electricity on hot summer afternoons when prices are often sky high, so the average wholesale price of daytime electricity isn&#8217;t low yet.\u00a0 Although it probably will be in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Because transmission losses from exported solar electricity are extremely low, as it is almost all consumed close to where it&#8217;s produced, the wholesale price component of solar feed-in tariffs should be adjusted upwards to account for this.\u00a0 Currently Victoria increases their feed-in tariff by around 0.6 cents to allow for this.<\/p>\n<h2>Tasmania&#8217;s Feed-In Tariff Has Been Way Low<\/h2>\n<p>Back when Tasmania was in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2016_Tasmanian_energy_crisis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crisis<\/a> because drought had caused hydroelectric dams to run low and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Basslink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Basslink interconnector<\/a> to Victoria broke, state wholesale electricity prices went through the roof<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/a-fair-solar-feed-in-tariff-for-australia-is-around-22-cents\/#en-16051-3' id='enref-16051-3' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(16051)'>3<\/a><\/sup>.\u00a0 But was this increase reflected in an increased feed-in tariff for solar?\u00a0 Nope!\u00a0 It remained a constant 6.05 cents throughout the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>If the state government had used the resulting windfall from solar households not being paid the market price for their exported electricity to instead provide a bonus for installing new solar capacity immediately, that could be understandable, since they needed as much additional generating capacity as they could get as quickly as possible, but they weren&#8217;t interested in that either.\u00a0 They just let solar households subsidize the entire state grid and help pay for things such as importing generators from the Philippines on account of how people in less rich countries don&#8217;t need electricity as much as Australians do<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/a-fair-solar-feed-in-tariff-for-australia-is-around-22-cents\/#en-16051-4' id='enref-16051-4' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(16051)'>4<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, their solar feed-in tariff increased to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.auroraenergy.com.au\/your-home\/solar-energy\/solar-export-charges-on-your-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8.9 cents<\/a> on the first of July.\u00a0 While this is a little higher than their current cost of wholesale electricity, it doesn&#8217;t come close to pricing in the other benefits of rooftop solar, and they need all the help they can get in Tasmania because it&#8217;s not at all a sunny place by Australian standards.<\/p>\n<h2>Avoided Long Distance Transmission Costs<\/h2>\n<p>A portion of electricity bills is the cost of rapidly wriggling electrons through high voltage power lines that connect Australia&#8217;s mostly coal fired power stations to towns and suburbs.\u00a0 At the moment, rooftop solar generally doesn&#8217;t use long distance transmission lines at all, so that cost is avoided and should add a couple of cents to solar feed-in tariffs, though the amount will vary by state.<\/p>\n<p>This detailed graph from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energynetworks.com.au\/news\/energy-insider\/developments-energy-market-competition-victoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Energy Networks Australia<\/a> shows a breakdown of residential electricity bills in Victoria:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16412\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/06042017_ei_4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1198\" height=\"611\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, provided you have eyes capable of resolving individual pixels, transmission costs are 5% of residential electricity bills, which comes to about 1 cent per kilowatt-hour of grid electricity consumed<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/a-fair-solar-feed-in-tariff-for-australia-is-around-22-cents\/#en-16051-5' id='enref-16051-5' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(16051)'>5<\/a><\/sup>.\u00a0 As Victoria is a compact and heavily populated state by Australian standards, this figure is below average.<\/p>\n<h2>Avoided Distribution Costs<\/h2>\n<p>Exported solar power uses local distribution infrastructure and does add some costs to local distribution.\u00a0 But it doesn&#8217;t require the same amount of infrastructure and costs as distributing power from large scale generators.\u00a0 Unfortunately, just how much rooftop solar is likely to save on distribution costs is beyond my poor little brain&#8217;s ability to calculate at this time.<\/p>\n<h2>Avoided Transmission And Distribution Infrastructure Costs<\/h2>\n<p>Transmission lines need enough capacity to meet peak demand, which happens on hot summer afternoons during heatwaves.\u00a0 Because rooftop solar is always producing electricity at these times right where it&#8217;s needed, it reduces the amount of transmission infrastructure that has to be built.<\/p>\n<p>In Australia there&#8217;s already enough rooftop solar installed to provide most of this benefit.\u00a0 It could also be argued that this is what the high feed-in tariffs available in the past were helping to pay for.\u00a0 But additional rooftop solar capacity is still useful for helping meet peak demand and this should be reflected in feed-in tariffs, even if its value turns out to be very small after the numbers are crunched.<\/p>\n<h2>Avoided Ancillary Services<\/h2>\n<p>Modern solar inverters do some pretty sophisticated work to help keep the grid stable by contributing to both frequency and voltage regulation and this is completely uncompensated.\u00a0 Victoria does have a payment 0.1 cents per kilowatt-hour included in its minimum feed-in tariff, but this is for ancillary service fees electricity retailers avoid by accepting a customer&#8217;s exported solar electricity.<\/p>\n<p>What the total value for ancillary services both provided and avoided would be, I don&#8217;t know, but for now I&#8217;ll just go with Victoria&#8217;s figure of 0.1 cents, since they rounded it up.<\/p>\n<h2>Avoided Health Costs<\/h2>\n<p>Each kilowatt-hour of solar electricity exported to the grid will reduce fossil fuel generation by around one kilowatt-hour.\u00a0 Generally, because most of our power comes from coal and because of the way coal power stations operate, it is coal use that will be reduced and that is the most dangerous of fossil fuels when it comes to pollution.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16414\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16414\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/5272230-3x2-340x227.jpg\" alt=\"Morewell Coal Smoke\" width=\"340\" height=\"227\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Australian town <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-09-02\/hazelwood-coal-mine-fire-morwell\/5711564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wreathed in coal smoke<\/a>. Note:\u00a0 Australia &#8212; not China. Specifically the town of Morwell in Victoria where people got less well and more sick from a coal mine fire. (Image Credit: ABC TV News)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One estimate of the health cost of coal generation in Victoria &#8212; not including coal mine fires &#8212; is <a href=\"https:\/\/environmentvictoria.org.au\/2015\/02\/24\/cleaning-victorias-power-sector-full-social-cost-hazelwood-power-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">0.8 cents a kilowatt-hour<\/a>.\u00a0 While coal power in other states tends to be less deadly, electricity generated by rooftop solar that isn&#8217;t exported also reduces coal generation and should be accounted for in the feed-in tariff<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/a-fair-solar-feed-in-tariff-for-australia-is-around-22-cents\/#en-16051-6' id='enref-16051-6' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(16051)'>6<\/a><\/sup>.\u00a0 This means we should probably be adding at least 0.8 cents to solar feed-in tariffs.\u00a0 Possibly much more if that estimate doesn&#8217;t fully capture the heath costs of coal.<\/p>\n<h2>Avoided Greenhouse Gas Emissions<\/h2>\n<p>The amount of additional carbon dioxide the atmosphere can safety tolerate is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_warming\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zero<\/a>.\u00a0 Because of this, carbon emissions avoided by rooftop solar should be compensated at the rate it would cost to remove those emissions from the atmosphere if they had been released.\u00a0 This is because I believe a company makes a mess should pay the full cost of cleaning it up.<\/p>\n<p>The lowest estimate for removing large quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere I am aware of is 7 cents per kilogram<sup class='endnote'><a href='https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/a-fair-solar-feed-in-tariff-for-australia-is-around-22-cents\/#en-16051-7' id='enref-16051-7' onclick='return hhEndnotes_show(16051)'>7<\/a><\/sup>.\u00a0 Because each kilowatt-hour of rooftop solar electricity exported reduces CO2 emissions by around one kilogram, at least 7 cents should be added to solar feed-in tariffs to reflect this.<\/p>\n<p>But because self consumption of electricity from rooftop solar also reduces emissions, this should be taken into account.\u00a0 If Australian solar households self consume an average of 30% of the solar electricity they generate, then solar feed-in tariffs should be raised by at least 9.1 cents to cover the cost of avoided greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<h2>Fossil Fuels Should Directly Pay For Health &amp; Environmental Costs<\/h2>\n<p>In an ideal world, instead of increasing solar feed-in tariffs to compensate for avoided health and environmental costs, fossil fuel generation would directly pay for them.\u00a0 But because coal appears to hold a special, privileged position in our society, the current government refuses to make it pay for even a portion of the costs it imposes on society.<\/p>\n<p>This is ridiculous.\u00a0 If I started a nuclear waste disposal business and began burning low level radioactive waste in an incinerator and let mildly radioactive smoke drift across the landscape, I would be considered a criminal, even if I could show the total harm to human health was less than that of one small coal power station.\u00a0 I find this really annoying because I am running out of room in my shed for low level radioactive waste.<\/p>\n<p>Until we decide to make fossil fuels pay the full cost of the harm they cause, we should use the next best solution, which is to compensate renewable energy for reducing fossil fuel generation, so we should include the value of avoided health costs and carbon emissions in solar feed-in tariffs.<\/p>\n<h2>The Total Comes To Around 22 Cents Per Kilowatt-Hour<\/h2>\n<p>If I add together the estimates for what I believe the major components of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/systems\/feed-in-tariffs\/\">solar feed-in tariff<\/a> should be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 cents for the cost of wholesale electricity.<\/li>\n<li>2 cents for avoided long distance transmission costs.<\/li>\n<li>0.8 cents for avoided health costs.<\/li>\n<li>9.1 cents for avoided greenhouse gas emissions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It gives a total of 20.9 cents.\u00a0 If it is assumed the value of other benefits only add about one cent to that then a fair solar feed-in tariff is roughly 22 cents.<\/p>\n<p>This figure could go up or down if time and effort was put in to refining the estimates.\u00a0 I know there are people out there who will disagree with the value I used for avoided greenhouse gas emissions, on account of how they like the idea of Australia having an inland sea or something, but I do think I used a reasonably low estimate.<\/p>\n<p>This 22 cent figure for a fair solar feed-in tariff won&#8217;t remain constant forever.\u00a0 It will go down when wholesale electricity prices fall, which they eventually will, and it will also decrease once coal power is mostly eliminated from the grid and the emissions avoided by rooftop solar power declines.\u00a0 Unfortunately, if our current government has their way, it may be a long time before we reach that point.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s try to not let them have their way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Solar Feed-In Tariffs Should Be Higher Than They Are &#8212; But Not As High As Some Believe In my not at all humble opinion, Australian solar feed-in tariffs are too damn low!\u00a0 People aren&#8217;t receiving a fair deal for the clean solar energy they export to the grid.\u00a0 This is bad for our nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":16429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[636],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-16051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electricity-prices","tag-feed-in-tariffs","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Solar Fair Feed In Tariff is 22c. 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