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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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Networks concede one-third of consumers could still quit the grid
Updated future grid report from CSIRO and ENA predicts huge 10-year fall in solar and battery costs, and says they’re already around 20% cheaper than predicted in 2013. Projections on grid defection remain unchanged.
Sophie Vorrath
Dec 3, 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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Solar boss takes Queensland home off-grid, with a 7.5 year payback
The head of a Queensland solar company is taking his home off-grid, using a Samsung 10.8kWh battery storage – the first time it has been used this way.
Giles Parkinson
Nov 12, 2015
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Networks to spend another $50bn on Australia’s dumb and dumber grid
Energy market analysts and consumer advocates slam plans to let Australia’s ‘dinosaur’ electricity networks spend another $50bn on poles and wires in the next five years, saying it will result in a bigger, dumber grid that is less prepared than ever for the low-carbon revolution.
Giles Parkinson
Oct 30, 2015
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WA’s battery storage “ban”: Regulator says don’t blame us
WA regulator says it’s not at fault for so-called battery storage and EV ban in local households, and there is nothing preventing state-owned utilities from approving them.
Giles Parkinson
Oct 30, 2015
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Network polemics: Why ENA is wrong on battery storage costs
There can be no reasonable doubt that networks are under pressure from the costs of battery storage.
Bruce Mountain
Sep 22, 2015
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The world is changing, but utilities and regulators are not
Head of big New Zealand network operator Vector says utilities and regulatory efforts to protect incumbent business from change is an exercise in futility.
Giles Parkinson
Sep 10, 2015
3
Distributors’ broad brush unfair to businesses
Measures distributors are taking under the auspices of ‘cost reflective pricing’ fall way short of the mark, and open the door to future legal challenges.
Rob Campbell
Aug 7, 2015
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