
Our BYD Atto 3 topping up at an RAA charging station in Normanville, SA.
The Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (RAA) has celebrated completion of the state’s first border-to-border public EV charging network. [Read more…]
Our BYD Atto 3 topping up at an RAA charging station in Normanville, SA.
The Royal Automobile Association of South Australia (RAA) has celebrated completion of the state’s first border-to-border public EV charging network. [Read more…]
South Australia’s electricity distributor SA Power Networks (SAPN) has announced it will be introducing an export tariff —sometimes incorrectly referred to as a ‘sun tax’ — from July 1 this year. Here’s why, how it will work and how much it will cost. [Read more…]
A call has gone out for SA households to register their interest in a trial involving electricity demand flexibility and smart electric homes. [Read more…]
A VPP project installing Tesla Powerwall batteries at SA Housing Trust and community housing provider homes picked up an award early this month. [Read more…]
South Australia – where more than 1-in-3 homes have rooftop solar – is once again leading the charge in solar energy integration with the introduction of Flexible Exports for new solar connections, starting in earnest this month (July 2023).
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Are you *sure* you selected “Australia A” for Volt/Var response?
I recently received an invite from SA Power Networks to join them for a “free and informative webinar on the new automated feature for DER compliance management”.
You are probably thinking two things right now:
There wasn’t a great deal of fanfare, but legislation to repeal SA’s electric vehicle taxed passed the Upper House last week. [Read more…]
In November 2022, South Australia experienced a ferocious storm that decoupled us from the rest of the electricity grid and felled many local power lines. Functioning as an island, we couldn’t export to the bigger national network, so without that safety valve, SA Power Networks (SAPN) was obliged to pull out all the stops to maintain stability. [Read more…]
EV owners in South Australia can reportedly now apply to SA Power Networks to install V2G bi-directional chargers. While an important step towards making better use of electric cars, don’t get too excited just yet. [Read more…]
Recently I wrote about South Australia going from zero to 70% renewable energy generation in 16 years, resulting in:
But – although our electricity prices would be much higher without renewable energy, electricity prices – overall – have still trended up over those 16 years. And that’s because many things affect electricity pricing. [Read more…]
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