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What will be South Australia’s largest operating solar farm (for a short time) has been completed and is to be officially opened in a few weeks. [Read more…]
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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…]
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…]
“Slender Roofs” Not Just An Issue For Commercial Solar
Australian commercial rooftops are reportedly increasingly being built without the strength to bear solar panels – is this happening with new houses too? [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…]
Powerwall, Meet Marshall-Wall – Tesla SA Virtual Power Plant’s Future Uncertain
Whether the 50,000- household strong solar + Powerwall 2 battery based virtual power plant will go ahead in South Australia remains unclear this morning. [Read more…]
What Does The Liberal Win Mean For Clean Energy in SA?
Labor’s Jay Weatherill is out. The Liberal’s Steven Marshall is in. What does this mean for the future of renewable energy in South Australia?
The South Australian Liberals have won the election. The results seemed clear on Saturday night and are looking very definite now on Monday morning. They have a small but clear majority allowing them to govern in their own right. Now that the power is theirs, will solar and wind continue to expand in South Australia or will Premier Marshall peel off his face to reveal he is Mecha-Abbott underneath and set about destroying the renewable energy industry in South Australia? [Read more…]
Business As Usual Trumps National Energy Guarantee
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With Labor out of the way in South Australia, a barrier to the adoption of the National Energy Guarantee (NEG) has been removed. But it remains Australia may be better served in terms of emissions reduction without it. [Read more…]
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