CleanTechnica: Every Australian household is aware of just how much electricity bills have risen in the past five years. They have effectively doubled, driven almost entirely by soaring network costs the result of building a grid for demand forecasts that were never met.
And the reason they were never met is because the energy industry scoffed at two major innovations energy efficiency and rooftop solar. Consumers ended up paying billions of dollars for an oversized network, in anticipation of demand peaks...