A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.
Opinion
Will Dobbie is to be thanked for his response about buying solar power from houses for the grid. Incredibly, this is the first time, after the idea has been floated on and off for a decade, that any reasonable objection has been made, by technicians or politicians.
However, although I
have no idea how complex it is to synchronise the AC waves of many contributors, I do know the problem has been solved in many countries, and that offering a decent buy-back price is what encourages solar installations. Germany has a million homes solar-powered, which with other installations provide 8 percent of its electricity. What is so different here?
Further, I was not talking about a “few” such providers, but a large majority of houses. That is the whole point.
Gavin Maclean
