July 15th 2020 As the response to Covid-19 becomes the ‘new normal’, lots of people are predicting what will happen beyond the immediate crisis. The obvious answer is ‘it depends’. It depends on how governments, business and households react. The reality…
28th June 2020 A coalition of community groups have issued a joint statement calling for additional government funding to provide financial support for homes and small businesses under financial stress to deal with energy costs. The statement has been…
26th June 2020 One of the common refrains heard about the electricity sector is the danger of too much rooftop solar – and the voltage surges it allegedly causes that can fry domestic appliances such as kettles, toasters, fridges and…
12th May 2020 Multiple states across Australia have been given the opportunity to be a part of the government backed virtual power plant package offering. Companies including Origin Energy, AGL and various others electricity retailers in Victoria, South Australia, New…
8th May 2020 It’s amazing how little electricity Australians use when they are away at work or out and about away from home. The kettle isn’t being fired up, the television isn’t on, the lights are out and no one…
27th March 2020 A Western Australian farm has taken its 26-year old business off-grid using solar PV and 40kWh of zinc bromine flow batteries from Australian energy storage company Redflow. The owners of the 34-hectare property near Gingin, 90km north…
Image Credit: Reposit Power 4th March 2020 A couple of small wins for the Australian residential energy storage market this week, with the Victorian government’s rebate scheme extended to 150 more postcodes in the state, and in New South Wales,…
4th Marth 2020 Energex’ recent submission to the Queensland Productivity Commission electricity pricing inquiry left a lot of solar system owners concerned about their systems and their plans to add batteries at a later stage. Energex recently increased their supply…
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…
1st March 2018 Credit: David Kingham/flicker Everyone hates the fixed or daily charges on their electricity bills, right? So why do they keep going up? Because retailers take us for mugs, right? What to do about fixed charges represents one…
