Data from Energex and Ergon to September 2022, charted above and below, demonstrates progress being made in Queensland, Australia, towards electrification of the vehicle fleet. There are 11,839 BEVs, 3,042 PHEVs, and 1,084 electric motorcycles currently using Queensland’s roads — about 16,000 plugin vehicles in total. The trajectory of the … [continued]
With the highest penetration of residential rooftop solar in the world, Australia is a testing ground for the role that distributed generators can play on the grid. Despite this fact, energy production incentives for rooftop solar systems are currently minimal or nil, leaving homes to try to maximise their solar … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Last week, the south-east Queensland network operator Energex became the first distribution network in Australia to break through the 1 gigawatt mark for rooftop solar PV. The achievement prompted this graph from former Energex executive and now consumer energy consultant Mike Swanston, who notes that rooftop … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. Australian households are almost single-handedly pushing the country towards a clean energy future, spending billions on generating their own electricity and accounting for nearly two thirds of total investment in renewables in Australia in 2013, and virtually all of it in 2014. New global data … [continued]
Originally published on Renew Economy. Here are a couple of interesting graphs that come from Energex, the network operator in the south-east corner of Queensland, which is dealing with the highest penetration of rooftop solar systems in Australia, with the possible exception of Adelaide and surrounding areas. This first graph … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy Within a few days of each other, Queensland network operators Ergon Energy and Energex produced annual reports that gave nearly diametrically opposed views of the current state of the play in the electricity market and its future. Both have been impacted by the proliferation of rooftop … [continued]
This article was originally published on RenewEconomy. We’ve been hearing a lot about the solar revolution recently: from the largest generators and utilities in the US, the entire German power industry, from the world’s biggest solar companies, and from leading energy analysts from the likes of Macquarie Group, UBS, Deutsche Bank, and Citigroup who track the implications for listed … [continued]
