Greens' subsidies on solar

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Aussie has done it for years now, a bit tempting,  but the big drawback is the power companies don't give you much for your units you put into the grid like they do in Australia.

It would support more ev ownership though if households could rely on their own power generation rather than sell it on at a low return.

That's exactly the reason we had for buying our first EV. Meridian dropped their feed in tariff (FIT) for our exported PV generation so we saw an EV as an opportunity to increase our effective return beyond the pitiful return Meridian paid as any of your own generation that you can use (or store) offsets imported electricity so is worth the same as that bought electricity would have been, including GST.

The flip side is that even with the better FIT (11c/kWh) we are now receiving from Ecotricity (which we would get if we exported the electricity we use for EV charging) our EV's energy cost is ~2c/km, so win - win.