The government’s Solar Sharer Offer will make free electricity available for three or more hours around midday.
I’ve heard this called a dumb policy that won’t lower costs because it will just shift them around, causing people to pay more at other times and in other ways to make up for what they get for free. But this isn’t true!
Hot water heat pumps can slash energy bills and carbon emissions due to their sheer efficiency, but take things to another level when timed to draw on cheap solar instead of expensive grid energy. Here’s what your heat pump needs to make this possible.
If, like me, you own a character home, it’ll have some unused and outdated features which need dragging into this century.
In this article, we’ll be looking at ways to deal with chimneys, because with the cost of energy these days, nobody needs a gaping hole in their house.
The Electric Vehicle Council (EVC) has made its case for expanding Australia’s home battery rebate program to include Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) EV chargers. [Read more…]
Gentailer AGL announced on Friday it has acquired 100 per cent of South Australia’s Virtual Power Plant (SA VPP) from Tesla. So, what are its plans and what next for existing customers? [Read more…]
Today’s a big day for Virtual Power Plants (VPPs): a federal rebate for VPP-capable batteries is coming online, while two states are offering incentives that require joining one. So why are multiple layers of government teaming up to tempt you into handing over control of your battery to a VPP operator, and should you take the bait?
Democracy sausages have been devoured, ballots cast and (mostly) counted, and the people have spoken. Discover what’s ahead for home electrification support in Australia under another round of Labor. [Read more…]
It didn’t take long for over-enthusiastic marketers and dodgy players to start distorting the nature of Labor’s proposed federal government battery rebate scheme in their advertising. [Read more…]
A group called “Mums for Nuclear” has spent a lot of money on newspaper and online ads in the lead-up to the federal election, claiming that “Nuclear energy in the mix with renewables reduces cost by 25%“. I’ve investigated this claim and found it to be false. Hopefully, this will prompt all groups that have made unrealistic claims about nuclear affordability to take them back and spark a chain retraction.
Credit where it’s due: Labor’s proposed home battery rebate is the right policy at the right time — for the most part.
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