Australian Network Operators Likely To Drop Remote Regions
Originally published on Renew Economy. Network operators in at least two Australian states are likely to ditch parts of their extensive poles and wire networks in regional areas as they realise that...
View ArticleSolar’s Insane Cost Drop
Originally published on Renew Economy. We’ve seen and published many dramatic graphs about the fall in solar, such as this one tracing the fall over the past 30 years and this from Citigroup, but the...
View ArticleBillions Invested In Solar Sector By Australian Households
Originally published on Renew Economy. Australian households are almost single-handedly pushing the country towards a clean energy future, spending billions on generating their own electricity and...
View ArticleRooftop Solar — Are The Grids Really Needed?
Originally published on Renew Economy. Just over a week ago we reported on the anticipated moves by network operators in Western Australia and Queensland to ditch their reliance on poles and wires in...
View ArticleAustralia Solar PV To Hit 23 GW By 2030, Rooftop Solar Leading The Way
Originally published on Renew Economy. By Sophie Vorrath & Giles Parkinson Rooftop solar is an unstoppable force in the Australian market that will drive the nation’s total installed solar...
View ArticleQueensland Farming Town Wants 400 MW Solar Farm
Originally published on Renew Economy. Members of a small Queensland farming town just 100km north of Brisbane are pushing the state government to fast-track approval for a massive 400MW solar PV farm....
View ArticleElectric Vehicle Fast Charger From Australia Makes It To Europe
Originally published on Renew Economy. By Sophie Vorrath An award-winning Australian-designed electric vehicle fast charger will make its European debut at the Intersolar 2014 conference in Munich this...
View ArticleAustralia Solar — State-by-State Chart
Originally published on Renew Economy. Australia’s solar market may have fallen off is peaks, but it is still showing healthy growth, with a rising share of commercial based systems, particularly in...
View ArticleLet’s Wait Until The Rich Get Richer To Cut CO2 Emissions…
Originally published on Renew Economy. The conservative Queensland state government has called for action on emissions reductions to be deferred, saying that economic growth should not be impeded, and...
View ArticleWind Energy Just Had A Big Week In Australia
RenewEconomy (See also our update on how wind energy met 91 per cent of demand in South Australia on Wednesday morning). It’s been a big week for wind energy. First was the admission by Tony Abbott’s...
View ArticleFossil Fuels, Utilities & Gas Cars To Be Obsolete By 2030
RenewEconomy Last year, in an interview with Stanford University’s Tony Seba, we foreshadowed the remarkable conclusions of his new book: that energy and transportation as we know it will be history by...
View ArticleQueensland Solar Creates Negative Electricity Prices (In The Middle Of The Day)
Renew Economy The combination of low demand and strong output from the Queensland’s 1.1GW of rooftop solar helped send the state’s electricity prices into negative territory on Wednesday – in the...
View ArticleWhy The Fossil Fuel Industry Hates Wind Power
Originally published on RenewEconomy by Giles Parkinson. Wind energy has a significant impact on wholesale prices, particularly in those peak demand events when fossil fuel generators used to make most...
View ArticleAustralia’s First Zero Net Energy Town Could Be In NSW
Originally published on RenewEconomy A consortium of energy groups look to create “mini electricity” system relying on local renewable energy production and storage. The search has begun for a suitable...
View ArticleWhy Australians Want Energy Storage (For Now)
Originally published on RenewEconomy. So, who wants to be an energy pro-sumer? In some states in Australia, around one in four houses already boast rooftop solar PV systems, and it’s having a big...
View ArticleShifty Service Charge Introduced To Kill Solar
RenewEconomy. Queensland businesses are being hit with daily service charges of more than $500 a day on their electricity bills, in a move the solar industry says is designed to kill the roll-out of...
View ArticleQueensland Residents Double Down On Rooftop Solar (Graphs)
RenewEconomy. Today’s graph of the day shows the number of rooftop solar systems in south-east Queensland, including the capital Brisbane and the Gold Coast, that are serviced by the Energex network....
View ArticleSolar Council Launches New Ad To Save Australian RET
A new advertisement set to run throughout regional-Queensland and -Victoria, as well as on the country’s news station Sky News, prompts viewers to withhold their vote in the upcoming state-elections...
View ArticleUnsubsidized Batteries May Reduce Need For Grid Infrastructure
RenewEconomy. Ergon Energy has announced the winner of its first tender to provide ground-breaking grid-based battery storage, in what could be the first of hundreds of such installations across its...
View ArticleErgon Energy Wants To Get Some Remote Customers Off The Grid
RenewEconomy. Queensland network operator Ergon Energy is looking to take some remote customers off-grid rather than continuing to pay for the maintenance and upgrade of part of its sprawling network...
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