Households will power half the grid by 2050, networks admit
07 December, 2016
A major new study by the CSIRO and Australia’s main networks lobby has highlighted the key role consumer-installed and owned distributed renewable energy and battery storage will play in the electricity system of the not-too distant future.
Another rooftop solar boom – this time with warnings
01 December, 2016
Record low solar panel prices, combined with the ratcheting-down or removal of federal and state policy levers, are sparking a boom in Australia’s residential and commercial solar markets, while also prompting warnings to consumers to avoid the lure of cheap and nasty solar products – and installers.
Australian Solar Subsidy Reduction Just A Few Weeks Away
30 November, 2016
The year has flown by – and current solar subsidy levels will fly out the window soon for Australians who put off ordering a solar power system.
Blockchain network disruption coming, and Australia among pioneers
25 November, 2016
Australian start-up Power Ledger has been named in a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report as a global leader in the development of “blockchain” technology – a technology, says BNEF, with the potential to “rapidly disrupt” the energy market status quo and fast-track the shift to decentralised generation.