We’ve written previously about the impact of the high penetration of rooftop solar on the Australian energy market and the infrastructure that distributes electricity, the grid. In short, the high take up of rooftop solar across Australia has changed the crucial supply-demand equation without our systems really being ready for those impacts. Of course, rapidly… Read More
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9 simple tips to keep your gas bill down
For those of us who use gas, winter is a time when we usually see our bills go up. That’s because gas is most often used for heating and hot water systems. Particularly in the colder southern states of Australia, heating can account for as much as a third of your total energy bill in… Read More
Is reform coming to the Australian energy sector post-COVID-19?
We’ve all had a lot on our minds over the past couple of months. It’s hardly ‘breaking news’ that more Australians have found themselves facing more challenges than ever before. We don’t envy our leaders in government and business who’ve been trying to balance keeping everyone as safe and well as possible against not setting… Read More
Meanwhile, in news you might have missed …
Like everyone, we watch and read the daily news. Being so close to the operations of the energy sector, we spend a lot of time thinking about the everyday challenges for energy consumers and business. That does mean that it’s easy to start thinking about the difficult bits too much and take our eye off… Read More
What high wholesale prices are doing to Australian industry?
Like the broader public and media, most of our articles about the Australian energy landscape focus on the ways that prices, generation, distribution, reliability of supply, technology, policy, etc, impact on households. That’s because 99 per cent of our customers are residential. However, when we consider the big picture of the Australian energy sector –… Read More
How much is a stable electricity grid worth
We’ve posted previously about the role that ‘the grid’ plays in distributing electricity up and down the east coast of Australia. Most of the millions of homes and businesses in Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales, the ACT, and Queensland are connected to the national electricity network, and we rely on it to get… Read More