I just flew back from a virtual conference and, boy, are my virtual arms tired. I attended the 2020 Smart Energy Conference and Exhibition by sitting at my desk — a huge improvement over hauling my arse and other body components to Melbourne as I normally do. [Read more…]
A few weeks ago, I wrote about how ACE-EV plans to open a factory and produce tens of thousands of electric vehicles per year in Adelaide.
I’m hoping it will happen because I was impressed when I took their electric cargo van for a spin.
Hydrogen won’t be $2-3 per kilogram by 2030. It’ll be much cheaper!
Hydrogen is the car fuel of the future. Just not our future.
Update July 30th 2022: The 3 cent DEBs feed-in tariff was reduced to 2.5 cents on July 1st 2022. The 10 cent rate from 3 pm to 9 pm remains the same.
From yesterday (31 August 2020), new residential solar power systems installed in Western Australia will no longer receive the REBS or ‘Renewable Energy Buyback Scheme’ solar feed-in tariff of 7.135 cents per kilowatt-hour. Instead, it will receive the DEBS or ‘Distributed Energy Buyback Scheme’ that will instead pay: [Read more…]
If there is one thing I hate, it’s dodgy solar installers who mislead the public with deceptive advertising and fake deals. It harms customers who are just looking for decent quality solar and it hurts honest installers by damaging the reputation of the entire industry. It really gets my goat, and I am extremely protective of my goat.
But when a state government engages in misleading ads it’s fine and I don’t mind at all. [Read more…]
The ACE Cargo electric van will, fingers-crossed, be made in Adelaide and sell for about $40,000.
The future of road transport is electric. This is clear from the falling cost of batteries and crystal clear if you’ve ever gotten behind the wheel of an electric car that takes off like a rocket.
A battery shed near Alice Springs. Photo: Lloyd Peacock
The Northern Territory has the nation’s most generous solar battery subsidy: $6,000 off a battery system. It’s already the biggest battery subsidy in Australia by a long way, and if the Country Liberals win the NT election this month they will double it to an insane $12,000. And by insane, mean they’d be nuts to make it that high. [Read more…]
The Australian Energy Council publishes a report on solar every quarter. I’ve just read through the latest one. There are only 11 pages of text and graphics, so it’s not too much of an effort if you want to read the whole thing yourself here.
But since we live a world where everyone is as busy as bees — except for people stuck at home in Melbourne — I’ll make use of my surplus of serenity by summarizing the report. [Read more…]
ACT Labor will offer interest-free loans for solar power, home batteries, and heat pump hot water systems to Canberra households. But there is a catch. This will only happen if they win the election starting on the 28th of September and ending on the 17th of October. [Read more…]
Solar feed-in tariffs are what you get paid when your rooftop solar power system sends energy into the grid. Their value will decrease in the future. This is inevitable. As more solar capacity is built it will drive down the price of daytime electricity. [Read more…]
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