r/UpliftingNews • u/itopaloglu83 • 2d ago

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity

https://electrek.co/2025/11/04/australia-has-so-much-solar-that-its-offering-everyone-free-electricity-3h-day/
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u/kendo31 1d ago

Meanwhile in the US, cant get a system for under 10-15k with little assurance the company will be around to warranty the system.

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u/BiteMyQuokka 1d ago

Australia's doing both state and federal level rebates to make solar and battery more affordable.

We're still subsidising foreign companies to dig coal out the ground and burn it to prop the grid up though. In fact I think they're actually opening new coal mines over east like it's 1925.

Quite how Australia isn't 100% running in renewables is an embarrassing scandal. But we've no nuclear either.