Annoyingly, The Future Keeps Coming

Significant savings on energy bill for participating customers? It sounds like renting your roof top and such for what may be $50 a month savings? (Guess)

That would be annoying.. especially when you have to put up with the extra work for maintenance.. or at tear off.

I hope I read that wrong.

Much more than $50 dollars savings:

http://www.afr.com/news/australian-households-pay-highest-power-prices-in-world-20170804-gxp58a

Australia pays some of the highest electricity costs in the world.

Wow. I guess they do have some looooong wires to maintain. Aboriginal discount?

Interesting plan:

first kill reliable power in South Australia.

Install unreliable wind and solar power.

raise energy costs

tell everyone this is a problem that can be fixed by

installing batteries and more solar.

More Power for Tesla but not from Tesla!

Yeah.

If there is no problems we create them and then we can fix them!

Be careful. That is how the legal profession sustains itself. When the run out of work, they introduce new legislation.

At a guess: Musk has his battery Gigafactory to build. The contract with the Aussie guv will infuse that project with money, which will (in the long run) give him the manufacturing capability for his cars.