On Wednesday last week Australia’s Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel, gave a talk on Australia’s energy future at the National Press Club. While there’s no doubt Australia’s Chief Scientist is a smart cookie, I think a couple of predictions he made are fairly obviously wrong. [Read more…]
Under 10 degrees tilt? Try groovy solar panels made by Winaico (and others).
It’s really bucketing down here in Queensland right now. I’m relieved because until this evening there was a remote but real possibility of everything going all orange and wavy and really hot. I have friends coming over from Taiwan and I’d be most dreadfully embarrassed if all we had to offer them was a fine selection of ashes. [Read more…]
Victorians can get $50 from the Victorian Energy Compare website until the 30th of June 2020 because they’d rather waste money on bribes than allow real competition.
If you live in Victoria and have an electricity or gas account in your name, you can get $50 from the Victorian Government. Why are they handing out $50 to every household that asks for it? [Read more…]
Of 18 batteries tested, 7 didn’t need repair or replacement and only 3 batteries passed the testing without issue: Sony Fortelion, Samsung AIO, and Pylontech. Sony was the best performer by my reckoning.
Good news! The Canberra Battery Test Centre have released their 7th report. I admit I’m a little behind in reporting this because it wasn’t released this month, or last month, or even the month before that. It came out all the way back in September. But it’s their fault I’m so late writing about it. [Read more…]
Introducing Solarquotes New Retail Electricity Plan Comparison Tool: It Will Pay For Pizza!
I’m paying way too much for electricity. It’s driving me broke! Financially I was doing okay until I told everyone I’d buy them pizza and it end up costing me $90. How can pizza cost $90? It’s dough, tomato sauce, ham, pineapple, and maybe some corn if you’re Japanese. How can that be $90? We only had four of them! [Read more…]
Electricity Prices To Fall Thanks To Wind And Solar Power — But Not In WA!
If you don’t live in Western Australia I have good news. A report released on December the 9th by the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) says electricity prices will fall in all states except WA.
Lately, Australia has been having a bit of a problem with bushfires. You may have noticed. It’s been on the telly. Also, there’s a good chance you’ve been spluttering on vast clouds of smoke blowing across the country. Smoke and fine ash from the fires can travel thousands of kilometers before settling and most of us now have a fine layer of soot on our solar panels, while those nearer to fires may have a thick layer of ash. [Read more…]
Australia’s Energy Markets Are Broken Because They Ignore Externalities
You would think the middle of a horrendous bushfire season — at a time when large areas of New South Wales were ablaze and air quality in Sydney was worse than Shanghai thanks to smoke hanging in the air like the ghost of gums before drifting out to sea — would be a bad time for the Australia Energy Market Operator (AEMO) to announce they are okay with people dying from fossil fuel use as long as someone is making money from it. [Read more…]
Wagga Wagga yesterday. So smokey you can’t even make out a single Wagga.
According to UQ Economics Professor, John Quiggin, Australia is likely to suffer 1,000 or more excess deaths due to smoke pollution from the current disastrous bushfire season. [Read more…]
If you’re willing to overlook a couple of major climate disasters, Australia has been doing great this year. We’re on fire! [Read more…]
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