Originally published on RenewEconomy. Experts say new housing estates may be built that do not connect to the grid, offering instead free electricity, and even free EVs to residents. Meanwhile, numerous towns are looking how to buy back their grid. Imagine this: Newly built housing estates that are not even … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy Australia has all the ingredients to be the world’s leading market on battery storage: Lots of solar, high prices, and a consumer base that is independent, cost conscious and distrustful of incumbents. There is no doubt that Australia is going to be at the leading edge … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. This is one carbon budget that Australia has already blown. Economist and climate change advisor Professor Ross Garnaut has delivered a withering critique of Australia’s economic policies and investment patterns, saying the cost of misguided over-investment in the recent mining boom would likely outweigh the cost … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy The rapid roll-out of battery storage products into the Australian electricity market continues apace, with Japanese electronics giant Panasonic to announce its move into Australia next week. Panasonic is scheduled to announce its Australian plans with “some of” Australia’s leading energy Australian retailers on Tuesday in … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy The big fall in solar PV costs over the last five years is helping redefine the future of energy generation across the world, with grid parity in the retail market achieved in dozens of countries, and even beating wholesale prices in markets such as Chile and … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy Oh dear. Here we go again. The solar industry is clearly winning the battle to turn the global electricity industry upside down and inside out. The plunging cost of battery storage will accelerate that process. It’s just that some people have a hard time accepting it. … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. Here are two graphs that illustrate the pickle that Australia’s major electricity retailers find themselves in. For the past five years the big three retailers increased their market share by more than half, they almost completely missed the biggest trend in the energy markets in … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. Call it the great debate. A new technology that threatens to disrupt a century-old status quo in a trillion dollar industry. Battery storage, teamed with solar, is predicted to do to the energy industry what the internet did to media and mobiles did to the … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. Tasmania looks to fast-track take-up of electric vehicles to boost its credentials as a green manufacturing hub to replace old industries, and export clean energy to the mainland. Tasmania could end up totally renewable – a Green Apple Isle – in both electricity and transport. … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy The new Labor government in Queensland has confirmed its commitment to generating 50 per cent of its electricity needs from renewable energy by 2030, and to ensure that one million of its homes had rooftop solar by 2020. The plans were outlined in Labor’s pre-election policy release, … [continued]
