which will just encourage more roof top installs and the cycle continues

I reckon rooftop solar is going to get rugged in the coming years because of exactly that - there will be “too much”

probably better to have than not , buy some batteries and disconnect (can you even do that?)

I’m not sure about SA, but I have been following Aidan Morrison who has been pulling apart the AEMO Integrated System Plan and I know it’s been mentioned in there that they want more control over rooftop solar and potentially charging owners rather than buying excess back. But yes probably better to have. I can see all the Boomers getting it and patting themselves on the back for saving the planet and lowering their energy costs whilst further disconnecting them from the economic realities everyone else faces.

It'll do fine for offgrid, you don't use just one energy source, but trying to run everything electric like a big modern house with everything, heh have fun... I hope you like spending on redundancy to cover the down time.

im in little unit so all this theoretical for me. no way we're going to get anything installed here for a long time

yeah right... i bumped into one of the CIS essays doing some random searching not too long ago will def read some more of his articles