Huawei were not allowed to bid for the NBN due to spying concerns. But their solar inverters look pretty good.
Huawei is a giant Chinese company and the world’s largest producer of solar inverters going by gigawatts of capacity. [Read more…]
Asking Origin How Long It Takes Them To Change An Electricity Meter: An 11 Step Process
Electricity meters are low cost, reliable devices that measure how much grid your home uses. Traditional meters need someone to come around and read them, but all new meter installations now have to be smart meters that transmit information wirelessly, making your human meter reader redundant. [Read more…]
Tesla Increases Cost Of Powerwall 2 To $9,600 — Not Including Installation
And you thought batteries were meant to be getting cheaper every year?
Sorry I’ve been slow in reporting this, but back in February Tesla raised the price of a Powerwall 2 in the United States by 400 Mickey Mouse dollars; an increase from US$5,500 to US$5,900. We’ve also copped it sweet here in Australia and the price has increased by $600 to $9,600 before installation. The only mitigating circumstance I can see is that all Tesla Powerwall 2 battery systems now come with full backup capability. It’s no longer an optional feature. [Read more…]
Powershop Removes Mystery About Reposit GridCredits
Powershop Reveals Dollar Value Of Reposit Payments For Exporting Battery Power To Grid During ‘Critical Peaks’
Reposit is a smart controller that helps households make more effective use of battery systems. One advantage Reposit provides is during certain — very limited — periods of time, you can be paid $1 for each kilowatt-hour of electricity your battery exports to the grid. Reposit calls these payments GridCredits. [Read more…]
Ronald Checks Out Electric Cars Part 2 — Range, Charging, And Trivia
Nine days ago I attended the Charge Together electric car event in Adelaide and scored some sweet electric rides. Last week I wrote about 5 specific electric cars and today I’ll describe what I learned about driving electric cars in general from their owners. I’ll cover range anxiety and how it’s not really a problem provided you get an electric car that suits your needs. I cover charging at home, at public charging stations, and even what to do when out-the-back-of-Burke and desperately seeking a charge. I’ll even cover a little bit of electric car history. [Read more…]
Jinko Maxim Panels With Cell String Optimization Will Not Be Sold In Australia
Bad news for fans of cheap panel level optimisation. Jinko MX solar panels are not coming to Australia.
Last Tuesday I went to Sydney to attend the Smart Energy Conference & Exhibition. I learned many things, one being that Jinko Maxim panels that use use cell string optimization — described in this article — will not be sold in Australia because they were unable to stop them interfering with television reception. [Read more…]
Ronald Checks Out 5 Electric Cars On The Streets Of Adelaide
Ronald attended the Charge Together electric vehicle event In Adelaide. Here’s what happened…
I attended an electric car event here in Adelaide on Sunday. I thought it was a reasonable thing to do as I’d recently written about how electric cars don’t result in more CO2 emissions than the typical petrol car. Because some people have made apples to oranges comparisons between the greenhouse gas emissions produced by, lower performance petrol cars and larger, higher performance electric cars when charged from the grid, it seemed like a good idea to see with my own eyes that these people aren’t being fair dinkum. [Read more…]
Should Electric Cars Be Subsidised?
Nope! But We Should Make Cars Pay For Pollution.
So far this year there has been a fair bit of debate over whether electric cars should receive subsidies in Australia. The Greens are in favor and SA Labor were planning to make electric cars exempt from registration fees up to the point they were defeated in savage hand-to-hand voting. Our Federal Minister for the Environment and Energy, Josh “build me a fleet of new coal power stations” Frydenberg has come out of closet, or possibly coal bunker, as a fan of electric cars. Probably because they can be charged with coal power. [Read more…]
Craig Kelly Is Wrong: Electric Cars Are Better For The Environment Than Petrol Ones
Craig Kelly Is Either Illiterate, Incompetent, or Machiavellian. But I’m pretty sure it’s the middle one.
Toyota Prius Beats Nissan Leaf And Tesla S On CO2 Emissions In Australia
It has become clear to me there is some confusion over whether electric cars offer an environmental benefit in this country. Craig Kelly, who is an extremely honorable Member of Parliament, has told the nation they result in more greenhouse emissions than conventional petrol cars.
If you are standing up while reading this you may want to sit down due to your shock when I tell you Craig Kelly is actually wrong on this. [Read more…]
Does Virtual Powerline Technology Make SA-NSW Inconnector Obsolete Before It’s Built?
Virtual Powerline technology is due to disrupt the poles and wires business. Image Credit: BiTchain
The cornerstone of the new South Australian Liberal government’s energy policy, a new $740 million electricity interconnector with NSW, may be rendered obsolete before construction has even begun thanks to a new blockchain based ‘virtual powerline’ being built between the two states. The technology was developed by the US company BiTchain and has already avoided the building of billions of dollars worth of transmission capacity between the United States and Canada. [Read more…]
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