National Electricity Market Archives - Page 8 of 9 - Renew Economy

$240 billion cuppa: Plan for Australia’s future electricity grid
By 2050, electricity used to boil a kettle could be generated by over 20 different sources. How are we preparing for this huge grid transformation?
Luke Reedman

May 30, 2013

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Power prices: Beating the peak without punishing the poor
Peak power demand is a major factor driving Australia’s rising power prices. So how do consumers tackle this, and how will it affect vulnerable households?
Gill Owen

May 9, 2013

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Improved transmission to aid wind power in Australia
Planned transmission infrastructure upgrades will allow South Australia to export more wind power and Victoria to use less fossil fuel.
Ronald Brakels

May 2, 2013

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How US ratepayers are benefitting from wind by wire
Last week, another US coal-burning utility announced a significant wind power purchase that would lead to lower, more stable electricity prices.
Mike Jacobs

May 1, 2013

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Carbon emissions continue to fall, despite record summer heat
Despite heatwave conditions causing Australia’s electricity demand to buck its dropping trend, coal-fired power and NEM emissions continue their retreat.
Pitt & Sherry

Apr 5, 2013

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Should regulators protect consumers, or network operators?
QCA says compulsory time-of-use pricing for solar households expensive, ineffective, unfair and maybe illegal, but good for networks. Hooray!
Giles Parkinson

Mar 27, 2013

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Rooftop solar could power all households, slash electricity prices
Study finds that installing solar PV on every suitable rooftop could supply 134.8% of Australia’s residential electricity needs, cut prices to 7c/kWh.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 27, 2013

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How clean is your electricity?
US and European electricity retailers let their customers know whether their power is coming from renewables or fossil fuels. Australian retailers have no such obligation.
Fiona Berry

Mar 12, 2013

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Summer on the NEM: What the extreme heat didn’t do to demand
Despite blistering heat and a supposed new air-con load, Australia’s electricity market wasn’t pushed very hard at all this past summer. So what’s going on?
Mike Sandiford

Mar 5, 2013

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Brown coal power underwrites AGL’s ‘clean’ profit boost
AGL Energy’s decision to buy the nation’s biggest power station emitter has paid handsome financial dividends, despite falls in demand hitting its retail operations. Its wind farm portfolio, however, has overtaken its hydro capacity, and CEO Michael Fraser is still trying to make sense of the political landscape, and its impact on carbon and clean energy.
Giles Parkinson & Sophie Vorrath

Feb 27, 2013

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Reducing peak power demand: targets are good practice
As Australia’s electricity prices continue to spiral out of control, a strong case is building for the introduction of demand management targets.
Glen Wright

Feb 27, 2013

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Science’s call to arms over energy policy
The time is right for scientists to take ownership of the energy policy debate, before the public switch off from that issue too.
Catherine Happer

Dec 18, 2012

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