NZ: Solar Tax Stands
July 10th, 2017Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand.
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Oh, just wait. They’re just getting started.
A little bird told me that odious legislation is coming with regard to energy storage here in New Zealand. The retail electricity cartel knows that solar + storage spells certain doom for them. Now, get this (I couldn’t make this up): The rumor is that residential energy storage based on lithium ion chemistries will require some sort of fire proof enclosure, increasing costs and red tape.
So, Greenpeace calling for the government to, “overhaul this diseased industry,” misses the point. The government and the “diseased industry” are as thick as thieves! They are working together to try to protect the retail electricity cartel and the GST revenue it generates.
Too much of NZ’s retirement Ponzi scheme has been strapped to the mast of the electricity cartel’s doomed business model. Rather than getting out in front of this technology and acknowledging that its ascendancy is a mathematical certainty, they are implementing absurd taxes and barriers to try to… stop the sun from shining.
Clean, green New Zealand, etc. etc. Yeah right.
Via: Radio New Zealand:
Greenpeace campaigner Kate Simcock said the High Court decision was disappointing as it allowed companies like Unison to continue penalising solar users.
“The fact that this ridiculous tax cannot be properly challenged shows that the electricity industry in New Zealand is not accountable to anyone,” she said.
“It’s morally repugnant that big electricity players are knowingly taking steps to slow the uptake of solar because they see it as a threat to their bottom line. It’s time for the government to overhaul this diseased industry.”
