Mark Byrne
Ausnet Climate micro-grids Smart Energy Utilities
Bushfires should make us think about energy resilience, and micro-grids
One solution to the risk of bushfires is to rely more on each other for our energy supply.
New discussion paper from Total Environment Centre and Renew argues small-scale generation, supported by local storage and microgrids can increase network resilience.
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Goodbye energy consumers, hello energy citizens
Power is literally shifting to the people, and we have only just started to conceptualise what that might mean for consumers as energy citizens.
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How sharing solar, batteries and EVs will make energy system more resilient
Electric vehicles and V2G technology will play a key role in helping consumers use their solar and batteries to make their grids more resilient.
There are some simple, cheap and equitable solutions to some of the concerns raised about cross-subsidies to and from rooftop solar.
Beware the latest rooftop solar scare campaign from the networks. There are more important things to do than to demonise solar households.
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The fall and rise of demand response, and the power of “negawatts”
In the crazy world of Australian climate and energy policy, if you wait long enough, an idea killed off by one government eventually comes back and saves the day.
Why electricity is more than just a means to various ends.
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Fragility and resilience in the grid of the future
Simplicity doesn’t always equal efficiency, but it does usually equal reliability. A system with multiple layers of complexity is more vulnerable to breakdown.
Everyone hates the fixed charges on their electricity bills, so why do they keep going up? Is it because retailers take us for mugs?
