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Biggest threat to utilities is not solar + storage, it’s their own greed
The plunging cost of solar and storage present a huge threat to the business models of incumbent utilities. But the biggest threat to their future is their own greed, and the invitation to consumers to look at alternatives.
Giles Parkinson
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Electricity generation and transport: back to the 19th century?
Decentralised technologies are now becoming the cheapest way to bring power to the people, as they were 130 years ago, but we still need the grid.
Gerard Reid
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Why Australia networks need to slash asset values by nearly half
New analysis says if networks are to compete with new technologies and concepts such as solar, storage and micro-grids, they need to cut their inflated asset base by nearly half. It says huge increases in asset base, encouraged by regulators, is harming consumers and their own business models.
Giles Parkinson
May 12, 2016
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How the networks blew Australia’s cheap energy advantage
Networks spent $75 billion in a decade on demand forecasts that were never met. Those costs have been passed on to consumers, and even retailers have been bleeding their customers dry. Little wonder a new report says energy market “is not fit for purpose.”
Giles Parkinson
Oct 19, 2015
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Negative impacts of rooftop solar will fall on US utility investors
PV has been increasing at a rate of 50% a year has led many US utilities to question the impact that continued expansion will have investors and ratepayers.
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Nov 19, 2014
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With more houses using distributed PV with battery storage but still needing a utility, how will distributed storage integrate into the current market?
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