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Why energy utilities are desperate to slug households with higher fixed charges
Energy utilities have admitted that they built too much infrastructure based on wrong demand forecasts. But they don’t want to pick up the bill, they want consumers to pay. And their biggest target is solar households.
Giles Parkinson

Dec 16, 2015

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Campaign launched to fight WA ‘solar tax’
The Australian Solar Council has launched a campaign to fight the WA monopoly utility’s proposal of a doubling of connection fees for solar customers.
Jonathan Gifford

Dec 7, 2015

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Ausgrid’s mea culpa
One Australian electricity network has finally admitted it had its snout in the trough. But will this change anything in its approach to future investment?
Mark Byrne

Dec 4, 2015

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How would you build the grid today? Q&A with Ergon chief Ian McLeod
Ergon Energy chief Ian McLeod offers his unique energy market perspective – as retailer and network operator – on how Australia’s grid needs to change.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 26, 2015

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Networks launch grid PR push as battery storage looms
With battery storage set to boom, the Energy Networks Association has launched a website to remind consumers why they still need the grid. But the question consumers really want answered is why they are still paying so much for it.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 20, 2015

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NRG, university to test electric cars on solar and storage microgrid
Nissan and Honda will let the university tap the batteries of nine EVs for use on the local micro-grid.
Jeff St John

Nov 13, 2015

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Coal generation hits 3-year high in Australia following carbon price repeal
A two-year high in black coal output helped deliver a continued rise in emissions on Australia’s NEM, and pushed coal to 75.6% in the generation mix.
Giles Parkinson & Sophie Vorrath

Nov 12, 2015

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German grid could support ‘huge amounts’ of solar and storage
New study says German grid could cope with 150GW of solar PV by 2023, and 70GW of wind. But high household battery uptake would be key.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 29, 2015

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Grid neutrality: principles for tomorrow’s electricity sector
The electricity sector faces the most dramatic transformation in its history.
Greentech Media

Oct 12, 2015

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Should Australian households quit the electricity grid?
To quit the grid, or not. With battery storage, it’s a choice that households in regional areas, towns, and even in the suburbs of our major cities, are going to be able to make. Greg Hunt says it’s inevitable large numbers will quit the grid, but is it a good idea?
Giles Parkinson

Oct 12, 2015

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This northern NSW town could be first to decide to quit the grid
Tyalgum is considering a proposal to go 100% renewable and to possibly quit the grid altogether, in what would be the first such move by a township in Australia.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 6, 2015

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Head of UK’s National Grid says “idea of large power stations for baseload is outdated”
Steve Holliday, CEO of National Grid, believes the idea of large coal-fired or nuclear power stations to be used for baseload power is “outdated”.
Karel Beckman

Sep 15, 2015

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