Tag: NEM
The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment. It’s time the grid returned to public hands
Image: Dean Lewins/AAP
A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents...
Now they want to charge households for exporting solar electricity to the grid — it’ll send the system backwards
Picture: Shuttlestock
It’s come to this. The Australian Energy Markets Commission has produced a draft decision that will make households and small business with solar panels pay...
Finally, your electricity bill looks set to fall. Here’s how much you could save
The renewables revolution is starting to pay off:
our electricity bills are set to fall. AAP/Julian Smith
Household electricity bills in Australia have...
Australia’s energy woes will not be solved by reinforcing a monopoly
Australia’s energy market has a logjam, Sean Davis/Flickr
The possibility of blackouts affecting half of Victoria has attracted plenty of attention to a document...
Wind and solar cut rather than boost Australia’s wholesale electricity prices
Power failure. It’s gas, not wind, that’s pushing up
electricity prices. Shutterstock
Wholesale prices in the National Electricity Market have climbed significantly in recent years....
A month in, Tesla’s SA battery is surpassing expectations
A month into operation, the Tesla lithium-ion
battery at Neoen wind farm in Hornsdale, South Australia is already providing
essential grid services. REUTERS/Sonali...