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The quiet battery: What household batteries reveal about flexibility before full orchestration
The passive battery is not a new phenomenon. What is new is that its value is becoming harder for the formal market conversation to ignore.
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Australia’s electricity market needs better price signals that reflect local conditions
Australia’s electricity prices ignore location, even though the grid doesn’t. This mismatch drives congestion, curtailment, and inefficient investment. There is a better system.
Solar is already creating the fastest shift in electricity generation in history – and it is still accelerating
Solar is moving fast. Really fast. Batteries are moving faster. And there is no evidence in either prices or deployment that the system is about to tap the brakes.
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The quiet battery: What household batteries reveal about flexibility before full orchestration
The passive battery is not a new phenomenon. What is new is that its value is becoming harder for the formal market conversation to ignore.
Australia’s electricity market needs better price signals that reflect local conditions
Australia’s electricity prices ignore location, even though the grid doesn’t. This mismatch drives congestion, curtailment, and inefficient investment. There is a better system.Solar is already creating the fastest shift in electricity generation in history – and it is still accelerating
Solar is moving fast. Really fast. Batteries are moving faster. And there is no evidence in either prices or deployment that the system is about to tap the brakes.
Consultants might profess a commitment to net zero, but they are core to fossil fuel propaganda playbook
Fossil fuel industry wants to expand oil, gas and coal production, and win approvals through modelling that exaggerates economic benefits and ignores their harm.
Australia is leading the world on PV generation, but risks losing its seat at the global solar table
Australia leads the world in the uptake of rooftop PV, but risks losing its seat at the table of global collaboration because of a cut in government funding.
Batteries and wind are crushing evening peak prices, and there is more pain to come for gas and coal
Batteries, both grid scale and in the home, are clearly moderating evening peak prices, but so is wind. But the industry needs to learn to manage wind costs.
What is the value of energy efficiency and flexible demand? A new tool will help us find out
A new framework will help determine the cost of different measures to shift or reduce electricity demand, rather than supply.
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