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No more evening subsides for rooftop solar owners
Sri Lanka's energy authorities have defended their choice to restrict new rooftop solar connections exclusively to the Net Plus scheme,
Summary
Under former setups like Net Accounting, customers fed cheap solar power into the grid during daylight hours but drew costly thermal electricity at night. Since the grid lacks the capacity to store daytime solar energy, the power utility incurs substantial expenses during evening peak periods, costs that are ultimately passed on to standard electricity tariffs.
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People
- Anura Karunathilaka2
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- Sri Lanka2
- Colombo
Keywords
- rooftop2
- solar2
- plus2
- nighttime
- subsidise
- defended
- restrict
- subsides
- unfairly
- billing
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