20th September 2018 The South Australia Liberal government has finally outlined details of its long-awaited Home Battery Scheme, that will offer $100 million in state government subsidies for up to 40,000 households to install battery storage in their homes. Individual…
19th September 2018 In 2008, the demand for grid-supplied electricity in eastern Australia began its fall. Back then, industry planners and commentators thought the phenomenon just a temporary response to the Global Financial Crisis. After an expectedly-brief lull, and as…
27th April 2018 Planning approval has been obtained for a 20MW solar farm that will power a data centre and crypto-currency mining in the coal-mining centre of Collie in Western Australia. The application for the solar farm was made by…
12th April 2018 The Victoria energy and pricing regulator has proposed a peak period tariff of 29c/kWh for rooftop solar exports back into the grid, in a ground-breaking recommendation that could help change the way consumers think about their solar…
16th February 2018 A new green loan scheme backed by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation is hoping to boost the uptake of electric cars in Australia, by offering consumers cheaper finance to buy and lease low emissions vehicles. The initiative,…
10th November 2017 Australian homes and businesses continue to install solar at an impressive clip, adding more than 100MW of rooftop PV capacity for the month of October, up from 97MW in September, and almost guaranteeing a record 1GW-plus total for…
26th July 2017 “We will fight for bovine freedom And hold our large heads high We will run free with the Buffalo, or die Cows with guns” Cows with Guns, Dana Lyons 1996 Grid arbitrage is becoming more attractive. You’re…
14th July 2017 State energy ministers are threatening to “go it alone” with a clean energy target, as they ramp up pressure on the Coalition government, which is fracturing from the hard right response to the Finkel Review and the…
10th July 2017 French floating PV specialist Ciel et Terre International announced it has started construction on a 70 MW floating solar plant in China’s Anhui province for China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP), a top state-owned energy…
7th July 2017 Ouch. My electricity price just increased by a whopping 23.8 per cent. Being a NSW residential consumer, I had been lead to believe that prices were going to be flat or at worst increasing only slightly (1.5%), so what…
