POWER prices are on their way up so it is time to follow the Prime Minister’s lead and install solar panels on your roof?

The Victoria Labor government has announced that it is calling for expressions of interest to build a 20MW battery storage array, in what would likely be Australia’s first grid scale battery storage facility.

Queensland’s largest operating solar power plant, the 25MW Barcaldine Regional Community Solar Farm, has been bought by one of Europe’s leading solar infrastructure investment teams, Foresight Group.

Labor’s embrace of an emissions intensity scheme (EIS) and its decision to dump any specific renewable energy targets will almost certainly mean a significant jump in the amount of gas generation in Australia, and very little new wind and solar.