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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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The fine economic line between staying on grid, and telling it to “get stuffed”
New report says the margins between staying on grid – or quitting it – are very fine. How will the utilities respond?
Giles Parkinson
Sep 18, 2015
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One Step Off The Grid: Why businesses are turning to renewables
Why businesses – big and small – are going renewable, how low will battery storage costs go?, and lessons from off-grid living.
RenewEconomy editors
Aug 19, 2015
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Networks propose compulsory fees for all – to stop grid defections
Networks seek to protect revenues by charging all households for grid connection – whether they use it or not – and to charge fees to customers who choose to use solar and storage and leave the grid. But even networks concede this is futile. What they really want is tax changes.
Giles Parkinson
Aug 5, 2015
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Community energy retailer aims to be Australia’s cheapest, help people quit grid
NSW community energy start-up Enova prepares IPO, with plans to be Australia’s cheapest green energy retailer and installer, and help locals quit the grid.
Sophie Vorrath
Jul 28, 2015
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Introducing our new sister site – One Step Off The Grid
RenewEconomy introduces new consumer-focused publication, One Step Off The Grid – helping households, businesses and communities navigate energy revolution.
Giles Parkinson
Jul 21, 2015
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Energy giants say taking customers off-grid is viable, sometimes preferable
ESAA report finds off-grid distributed energy better for edge-of-grid customers, & could save networks tens of millions in avoided ‘poles-and-wires’ costs.
Sophie Vorrath
Jul 16, 2015
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Off-grid solar power vs grid-connected solar power in 21st century
The future in which power company customers transitioning to solar can choose to either maintain grid connection or cost-effectively generate off-grid has arrived. The implications are only just beginning to dawn.
Aisha Abdelhamid
Apr 13, 2015
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Developers to use storage to keep new housing estates off grid
South Australia, which already gets around 40 per cent of its electricity supply from wind and solar, is supporting the idea of using battery storage so new housing estates do not need to be connected to the grid. Ultimately, this will save everyone money.
Giles Parkinson
Mar 6, 2015
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Tech guru Simon Hackett installs storage to take office complex off-grid
Technology entrepreneur Simon Hackett has a Tesla. Now he wants to take his Adelaide tech business off-grid, with the help of solar and Redflow energy storage.
Giles Parkinson
Mar 4, 2015
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