Picture this:
A special peoples venture operates as a business model being mostly a sleep-out with an attached kitchen and at other times supposedly not whilst idling.
Whole operation is tied up and run by committees. Is probably not taxed being in a charitable trust model. Gets its power supplied at cheap residential rates and is often well-funded by unaudited taxpayer / ratepayer largesse.
Said business sees the bright shiny trinket of 'free power' via solar. Signs up for an extensive solar power install to power their kitchen facilities. Probably on some power board freebie grant model for "the good of the community". Looks to game the system thinking this will be so good for "our people", whilst raising the cost of power for all other users.
Power board installs a very expensive 300 kVA transformer. Copper's worth heaps these days! Power board also say that allows future-proofing for the localised housing expansion trough this venture's also got its snout into. A business in any real sense of the word.
Now said business is whining to the MSM for sympathy as the power bill has jumped some 400%. On full business rates so someone's paying for all that copper and fast-depreciating solar.
Business power bills do not stop for community good or idleness in the real world. The true cost of being in business bites hard at the local funeral home.
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