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A new report confirms what many already know – the most prevalent driving factor in Australia for adopting solar power appears to be reducing current electricity bills and acting as a hedge against further potential price rises. [Read more…]
Canberra’s Battery Test Centre has been going a couple of years now. What do the results so far tell us about the state of the home battery market?
I am very happy. I just found out there is a battery testing centre in Canberra. Who would have thought there would be something useful in Canberra? Besides, of course, for the Federal Government and the bureaucracy that’s necessary for the functioning of a modern representative democracy.1 [Read more…]
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As part of its efforts toward carbon neutrality by 2025, the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland will have thousands of solar panels and a giant “water battery” installed at its main campus at Sippy Downs. [Read more…]
If you are a business owner there’s an excellent chance you’re not happy with cost of grid electricity and would love to lower your bills with rooftop solar. Unfortunately, there’s also an excellent chance you rent your business premises and so don’t have much of an incentive to install solar. After all you can’t take it with you when you leave. [Read more…]
Lyon Group, JERA and Fluence have banded together to pursue further utility-scale battery storage development and investment opportunities in the Asia Pacific, including Australia. [Read more…]
Rooftop solar PV installs this year are 56% above the same period last year says Green Energy Markets’ latest Renewable Energy Index. [Read more…]
Perhaps we’ll see Ecorobotix’s solar powered autonomous robot weeder quietly trundling across Australian fields in the not too distant future. [Read more…]
Last week I wrote about the “Power of Choice” reforms that put electricity retailers in charge of electricity meters.
Today I’m writing how Power of Choice reforms harm the consumer by stealing the most valuable thing you possess: your time on this Earth. [Read more…]
Construction activity started on the weekend at the site of what will be the 121- megawatt Yarranlea Solar Farm, west of Toowoomba in Queensland. [Read more…]
A new scheme called “The Power Of Choice” has moved responsibility for meters to the retailers.
On the first of December 2017 responsibility for electricity meters in the National Energy Market or NEM changed hands1. The NEM is a National Electricity Market that apparently thinks Western Australia and the Northern Territory are other countries because they’re not included.
The job of installing and maintaining electricity meters was taken from Distributed Network Service Providers or DNSPs and given to Electricity Retailers. In other words, it was taken from the people who distribute electricity from long distance transmission lines to homes and businesses and given to the people who bill you for electricity. [Read more…]
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