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…
Virtual Power Plant Package Battery Upgrades Available
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…
Australian’s See Big Increases of Electricity Bill Costs Due to Covid Stay Home Rules While Others Are Saving
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…
Redflow zinc bromine batteries help take W.A. farm off-grid
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…
Home battery boost as NSW launches interest-free loans, Victoria expands rebate
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,…
How to beat the Energex “solar stitch-up”: Take part of your home off grid
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…
The switch is on: Consumers are turning away from gas
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…
How do you solve a problem like fixed charges?
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…
Australia’s pumped hydro storage potential worth thousands of Tesla big batteries
4th August 2017 Australia has enough untapped pumped hydro energy storage potential to support a 100 per cent renewable energy grid – 35 times over, a team of Australian National University researchers has found. The ANU team – led by…
Electricity bills are soaring, and that must be good for solar
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…
