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.

As federal energy minister Josh Frydenberg raised eyebrows for downplaying renewables and talking up gas at a conference in Canberra, a new report has highlighted how a change in energy market rules could encourage more battery and other storage devices and help reduce wholesale energy prices.

Electric avenues that can transmit the sun’s energy onto power grids may be coming to a city near you.

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.