Quote Originally Posted by Snoopy View Post
Solar is set to become a more and more competitive option for those completely off the grid.

For those on the grid, private solar generation will be tolerated by the big players. But if it starts to gain a significant presence, then the big players will change the rules to render it less economic. Meridian has already started along this path by reducing the amount it is prepared to pay for power you feed back into the grid once you generate a certain "ceiling amount" of energy. Further reduction in net payments will be made in the future to ensure that private solar will never be competitive with energy suppplied by the major gentailers, MRP included.

SNOOPY
The gentailers can sit back it looks like the lines companies are happy to dirty their hands with this. http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA160...-customers.htm