At the start of each year, when market observers do their annual look at the year ahead, there is normally always a vague statement about some type of widespread consolidation of companies set to unfold.

There’s a simple and achievable answer to electricity grid unreliability on extreme heat days right before our eyes.

The latest BNEF report The shift to ‘base-cost’ renewables: 10 predictions for 2017 takes a good look at key developments in renewables markets across the globe. And with input from 120 specialist analysts around the world, the predictions should be reasonably sound. Although the Australian renewables market is not singled out, the report still makes for interesting reading.

An extra 36,000 solar panels now installed along Canberra’s “solar highway” will generate enough clean electricity to power approximately 3,000 ACT homes.