Not true Malcolm! A typical house in SA pays less per kWh for electricity than any other state except NSW.
Grid electricity is not cheap in South Australia. Here in Adelaide it’s never a happy time when I get an electricity bill. My last quarterly bill was $203 for 389 kilowatt-hours of use. All up, that means I paid over 52 cents for each kilowatt-hour of grid electricity. [Read more…]
SA Back In The Driver’s Seat On Electricity (Somewhat) – Image: Wongm, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
The South Australian Government has announced it now has powers over the electricity market not seen since the privatisation of ETSA back in 1999.
Kimba Looks To Solar Energy + Batteries – Image: Thom Devereux, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
The District Council of Kimba is looking into the viability of using solar and batteries to provide backup power for important buildings in the Kimba township.
AGL and Origin Energy have just announced price rises in South Australia.
Australia’s two largest electricity retailers have announced they will increase prices in South Australia from the 1st of July. Origin Energy will raise prices by 6.5% increase and AGL will raise them by around 10%. [Read more…]
The last coal miners in South Australia have hung up their helmets, and the last coal fired power station has shut its doors.
History has been made with the closure of the Northern Power Station which has eliminated the use of coal in South Australia. And I say good riddance to you, Northern Power Station. I’m sorry you are no longer providing employment for people in Port Augusta or at the Leigh Creek coal mine, but I’m not sorry you are gone because you kill people and I am a firm believer that electricity generation should be death light. [Read more…]
If you’ve opened any South Australian newspapers recently you’ve probably seen adverts from solar power installers screaming about the “IMMINENT REDUCTION IN THE SOUTH AUSTRALIA FEED IN TARIFF!!!”.
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m not one to bombard you with pushy sales spiel, or use impending rebate cuts to pressure anyone into buying solar.
But what I will do is calmly go through the facts about the looming SA Feed In tariff reduction, and crunch a few numbers, so you can decide if you want to get in on the SA solar action before the 30 September 2013 deadline that a lot of solar companies are getting all worked up about.
Well, South Australian solar customers can hold their heads high. A report released earlier this week by the Essential Services Commission of South Australia (ESCOSA) has found that around 80,000 electricity customers in the state will have installed rooftop solar systems by December of this year.
TLDR: Can you put solar panels facing south in Australia? Hell yeah!
In 2010, when Australian rooftop solar power really started to take off, nearly every Australian solar system faced north to maximise energy yield. But today, on an unshaded roof, panels facing any direction can pay for themselves. This includes the ‘worst’ direction: south. [Read more…]
Our neighbour Tokalau is going 100% solar!
As news arrives of solar energy’s gains into our neighbouring South Pacific nations, many movers and shakers in the Australian solar sector are calling on our country to take advantage of this excellent opportunity. Specifically many analysts are saying Australia should position itself as a regional power in solar energy, presumably churning out solar knowledge and PV technology to the Asia Pacific region.
Is that such a bad idea solar fans? [Read more…]
A meeting of federal and state energy ministers in Melbourne last week resulted in release of the National Consumer Energy Resources Roadmap. So, what’s it about? [Read more…]
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