As I explain in this interview, the Liberal Party has now thrown away the fig leaf and is now standing naked on climate change policy. The task ahead is to explain to the electorate that nostalgia is not an energy policy and won't bring down energy bills. www.abc.net.au/news/program...

Dumping net zero will spook investors says economist

Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

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Less than 17 weeks for Aussie households to install 100,000 battery systems since they became eligible for SRES rebate. Equal to around 2,000MWh in storage capacity or enough power to cover typical daily consumption of 400,000 households. reneweconomy.com.au/australians-...

It really is exhausting the sheer volume of lies that are told about renewable energy. Great to see this series by @tristanedis.bsky.social calling out the bullshit reneweconomy.com.au/big-green-li...

As of end of yesterday it's now 13,199 Australians. By the end of today I suspect it will be more than 14,000 Australians.

Chris Bowen@chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · last yr.

More than 12,000 Australians have jumped at the opportunity to cut their power bills for good - slashing up to 90 per cent off their energy bill from day one.

Rooftop solar is a Labor legacy and Cheaper Home Batteries will be delivered through the existing Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme. The same tried-and-tested way that rooftop solar discounts have been sustainably delivered since 2011.

Australia is a solar nation – with the highest rate of rooftop solar anywhere in the world.

Including batteries into the SRES rebate scheme has unlocked huge demand. If recent rates of battery registrations were sustained we'll have 9,000MW of household batteries by 2030 capable of discharging close to double the annual energy provided by Snowy Hydro. reneweconomy.com.au/household-ba...

Household battery rebate smashes forecasts, could deliver twice the energy of Snowy Hydro by 2030

The uptake of household batteries under the new rebate scheme is beating all forecasts. If this continues, it will be delivering twice as much energy as Snowy Hydro by 2030.

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No doubt the balance of current Supreme Court judges would happily rip up the ruling of their predecessors. Who would have thought it would be so easy to bypass the founding fathers' safeguards against arbitrary rule.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last yr.

The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal the EPA’s “endangerment finding,” which established greenhouse gases as a threat to human life. This finding serves as the basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, power plants, and other industrial sources. 🤬

Could this finally be the way that United States' householders get around their ridiculously high non-hardware costs for installing residential solar systems? Australia should also think about how this technical option could open up the use of solar and batteries for those who rent.

Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo@0lsi.bsky.social · last yr.

In Utah, a bipartisan bill allows portable solar systems to plug directly into 120V outlets. The unanimous bipartisan support for balcony solar legislation signals a major step toward making small-scale, plug-in solar systems more accessible and affordable. pv-magazine-usa.com/2025/03/05/b...

In October 2016, in the wake of SA's blackout, then ABC journalist Chris Uhlmann (now with Newscorp) declared the problem was only "synchronous" generators could manage power system frequency. Chart below shows what type of technology has supplied frequency control services in NEM since 2001.

Dylan McConnell@dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · last yr.

.. and similar data, cut up another way:

‘Those who claim we must leave consumers to choose are the same types of people that gullibly believed oil and gas companies would put the interests of Australian consumers first over making money from LNG export plants,’ writes @tristanedis.bsky.social #energy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An impending gas shortfall in eastern Australia? This is just gas market Groundhog Day | Tristan Edis

The ACCC has been running an inquiry into the sector since 2017 and has been saying the same thing every year. The answer is obvious

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If the VIC Gov't had followed through on phase out of home gas heaters it would have freed up 70PJ of gas per year, 20% more than consumed by the entire VIC manufacturing sector. Manufacturers would have been a big winner but were silenced by pipeliners' threats. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

An impending gas shortfall in eastern Australia? This is just gas market Groundhog Day | Tristan Edis

The ACCC has been running an inquiry into the sector since 2017 and has been saying the same thing every year. The answer is obvious

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‘Those [FOSSIL GAS] executives have shown about the same kind of mercy to consumers as a pack of hungry hyenas towards limping prey,’ writes @tristanedis.bsky.social @reneweconomy.com.au #auspol #gas #climatecrisis #springst reneweconomy.com.au/decommission...

Decommissioning rates show gas heating could be gone by 2032, but oil exec bonuses might suffer

New data suggests Victorian households could be weaned off gas heaters in less than 10 years, freeing up more gas than used by by all of the state’s manufacturers.

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This article explains part of the reason why I give zero credence to news stories about how nuclear power is on the verge of a breakthrough & boom because Microsoft/Google/Amazon/[insert Silicon Valley tycoon] have signed a contract/MOU with said nuclear business. finance.yahoo.com/news/jpmorga...

JPMorgan Banker Warns of Silicon Valley Trap for Clean Tech

(Bloomberg) -- The venture capital model honed and perfected in Silicon Valley is proving a bad fit for the clean tech industry, and investors should instead accept that they’ll need to commit much bi...

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Why does the gas industry so vociferously attack the Victorian Government? It's not really about restrictions on new gas supply, it's that the government's plan to switch households from gas to electric will undermine their ability to gouge consumers. reneweconomy.com.au/decommission...

Decommissioning rates show gas heating could be gone by 2032, but oil exec bonuses might suffer

New data suggests Victorian households could be weaned off gas heaters in less than 10 years, freeing up more gas than used by by all of the state’s manufacturers.

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My alternative target for the renewable energy industry in Australia: Ensure 82% of the electorate laugh at Matthew Canavan whenever he speaks. reneweconomy.com.au/what-needs-t...

What needs to happen to prove the LNP wrong, and the high renewables target right

This election result has given the renewable energy industry a three-year window to prove it can provide a viable replacement for coal in our electricity mix. It won’t be easy.

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"unless your supermarket trolley is filled with nitrogenous fertilizer or explosives the Coalition's gas reservation plan will make barely any difference to your grocery bills" - @tristanedis.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/trista...

Coalition gives two different timelines for bill savings from gas plan | Tristan Edis

As I note in this article, unless your supermarket trolley is filled with nitrogenous fertilizer or explosives the Coalition's gas reservation plan will make barely any difference to your grocery ...

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