100years from the first national grid in the UK. Australian grid costs $1million per km new build. Complex energised occupied city and suburban streets, or cross country energised towers, both expensive to increase capacity. No blackouts allowed. City and suburb shift work only. Australia has 1million km. $1TRILLION to supply 15% of Australia’s total energy used. Plus generation costs. GDP is $1.5TRILLION. More GRID electricity capacity to supply 100% electric energy and no CO2 emissions, insane economically. Rooftop PV and BV with an OVERSIZED daily drive battery parked 23hrs every day and all night does not need grid electricity. Grid costs are fixed costs shared by grid customers. Offgrid homes in the suburbs will destroy grid electricity cashflows. Grids costs are rental costs. Grid supply makes dirt cheap electricity from the generator, expensive electricity to the customers.

You think that is expensive? Try buying electricity in the UK at £0.45 per kWh or 54 cents

My feed-in 5cents kWh, supply 50cents kWh. Grid makes dirt cheap electricity expensive electricity. Return on infrastructure investment and maintenance and expansion and workers and equipment. Note new infrastructure construction values the existing infrastructure. Mileage rate $/mile x total length to millions and millions of customers. Return on total investment $BILLIONS per year. Nobody is thinking about the massive cost of the grid. Nobody even sees the grid. Nobody thinks that is my money used to transmit over huge distances. Everybody thinks it is government money or others money. Nobody thinks that it is the grid that makes electricity expensive. Think about facts and then make decisions. Offgrid in the suburbs terrifies national grid owners. BV, battery vehicles, have oversized daily drive batteries. Most vehicles are parked 23hrs every day and all night long. BV makes rooftop PV extremely valuable. No grid electricity costs. No heating gas costs. No petroleum costs. After-tax savings huge. A little fossil fuel in winter weeks is nothing. Petroleum for road building and petrochemical industry will continue.