Less than 17 weeks for Aussie households to install 100,000 battery systems since they became eligible for SRES rebate. Equal to around 2,000MWh in storage capacity or enough power to cover typical daily consumption of 400,000 households. reneweconomy.com.au/australians-...
24.10.2025 05:09 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
It really is exhausting the sheer volume of lies that are told about renewable energy. Great to see this series by @tristanedis.bsky.social calling out the bullshit reneweconomy.com.au/big-green-li...
21.10.2025 00:22 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
As of end of yesterday it's now 13,199 Australians. By the end of today I suspect it will be more than 14,000 Australians.
25.07.2025 06:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Rooftop solar is a Labor legacy and Cheaper Home Batteries will be delivered through the existing Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme. The same tried-and-tested way that rooftop solar discounts have been sustainably delivered since 2011.
25.07.2025 02:30 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 2 π 0
Australia is a solar nation β with the highest rate of rooftop solar anywhere in the world.
25.07.2025 02:30 β π 55 π 13 π¬ 8 π 1
Household battery rebate smashes forecasts, could deliver twice the energy of Snowy Hydro by 2030
The uptake of household batteries under the new rebate scheme is beating all forecasts. If this continues, it will be delivering twice as much energy as Snowy Hydro by 2030.
Including batteries into the SRES rebate scheme has unlocked huge demand. If recent rates of battery registrations were sustained we'll have 9,000MW of household batteries by 2030 capable of discharging close to double the annual energy provided by Snowy Hydro. reneweconomy.com.au/household-ba...
23.07.2025 06:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
No doubt the balance of current Supreme Court judges would happily rip up the ruling of their predecessors.
Who would have thought it would be so easy to bypass the founding fathers' safeguards against arbitrary rule.
23.07.2025 05:51 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Could this finally be the way that United States' householders get around their ridiculously high non-hardware costs for installing residential solar systems? Australia should also think about how this technical option could open up the use of solar and batteries for those who rent.
23.07.2025 05:42 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
In October 2016, in the wake of SA's blackout, then ABC journalist Chris Uhlmann (now with Newscorp) declared the problem was only "synchronous" generators could manage power system frequency. Chart below shows what type of technology has supplied frequency control services in NEM since 2001.
22.07.2025 23:10 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
An impending gas shortfall in eastern Australia? This is just gas market Groundhog Day | Tristan Edis
The ACCC has been running an inquiry into the sector since 2017 and has been saying the same thing every year. The answer is obvious
βThose who claim we must leave consumers to choose are the same types of people that gullibly believed oil and gas companies would put the interests of Australian consumers first over making money from LNG export plants,β writes @tristanedis.bsky.social
#energy
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
02.07.2025 23:12 β π 39 π 12 π¬ 1 π 0
An impending gas shortfall in eastern Australia? This is just gas market Groundhog Day | Tristan Edis
The ACCC has been running an inquiry into the sector since 2017 and has been saying the same thing every year. The answer is obvious
If the VIC Gov't had followed through on phase out of home gas heaters it would have freed up 70PJ of gas per year, 20% more than consumed by the entire VIC manufacturing sector. Manufacturers would have been a big winner but were silenced by pipeliners' threats. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
02.07.2025 23:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
JPMorgan Banker Warns of Silicon Valley Trap for Clean Tech
(Bloomberg) -- The venture capital model honed and perfected in Silicon Valley is proving a bad fit for the clean tech industry, and investors should instead accept that theyβll need to commit much bi...
This article explains part of the reason why I give zero credence to news stories about how nuclear power is on the verge of a breakthrough & boom because Microsoft/Google/Amazon/[insert Silicon Valley tycoon] have signed a contract/MOU with said nuclear business.
finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmorga...
04.06.2025 02:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Decommissioning rates show gas heating could be gone by 2032, but oil exec bonuses might suffer
New data suggests Victorian households could be weaned off gas heaters in less than 10 years, freeing up more gas than used by by all of the stateβs manufacturers.
Why does the gas industry so vociferously attack the Victorian Government? It's not really about restrictions on new gas supply, it's that the government's plan to switch households from gas to electric will undermine their ability to gouge consumers. reneweconomy.com.au/decommission...
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