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,…
Australia adds 107MW rooftop solar in October as 2017 heads for record year
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…
Consumers vs the empire: The economics favour partial grid defection
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…
States threaten to go it alone on clean energy as Coalition loses plot
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…
Ciel & Terre starts construction on world’s largest floating PV plant
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…
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…
Battery storage “gigafactory” planned for Darwin for 2018
26th June 2017 Australia’s first battery storage “gigafactory” is likely to be built in Darwin, with a new consortium planing to establish a large-scale lithium-ion manufacturing plant by the end of 2018. Energy Renaissance, a company backed by engineering group…
Consumer bills to jump as networks score court victory over regulator
31st May 2017 Australian consumers already suffering from some of the highest electricity prices in the developed world are facing even higher bills after a group of NSW network operators won a Federal Court challenge against the national energy…
South Australia: Big no to higher FiT, big yes to batteries, big yes to EVs
9th May 2017 The South Australian government is bucking the trend in other states to introduce a higher “fair” feed-in tariff (FIT) for solar system owners who are feeding excess electricity back in to the grid. Instead the focus is…
Graph of the Day: Watch Australia’s biggest polluter power down
20th April 2017 If you need a break from cyclone watching, we recommend heading over to is.hazelwood.online to witness the emissions from one of the world’s dirtiest power plants disappear before your eyes. As we reported in yesterday’s Graph of…
