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Guest Contributor: Gabrielle Kuiper and Press Release
Energy Ministers urged to rethink AS4755 standard against more beneficial, consumer-friendly international solutions
5 August 2021 (IEEFA Australia): Mandating a new Australian standard for pool pumps, air conditioners, electric storage water heaters and electric vehicle chargers will consign households to outdated technology, finds a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). Australia’s Energy Ministers have decided that various domestic appliances sold in the […]
Guest Contributor: Gabrielle Kuiper
Planning must begin for a zero-inertia zero-emissions electricity system
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AMEC) has sought assistance to make distributed energy resources an integrated part of the national electricity market (NEM) for the benefit of everyone. When the NEM operating on the east coast of Australia was designed, there was almost no rooftop solar or other small generation, demand response or storage in […]
IEEFA
Renew Economy: Australia’s largest renewable energy operator is planning major investments in massive wind farms in New South Wales, and is also looking at a handful of big battery and other storage projects. Powering Australia Renewables on Monday completed the takeover of Tilt Renewables’ Australian assets, delivering it a 50 per cent boost in operating […]
IEEFA
Renew Economy: French renewable and battery storage developer Neoen says it expects its heavily delayed Bulgana wind and battery hub in western Victoria to be in full production by the end of the year. The Bulgana Green Energy Hub features a 194MW wind farm supported by a 20MW/34MWh Tesla battery, and was expected to come […]
Johanna Bowyer
Proposed capacity mechanism could be more expensive than the carbon price, and is likely to favour coal generators
The Energy Security Board’s (ESB) recommended capacity payments for electricity generators will benefit polluting fossil fuel-based electricity generation over renewables. And energy consumers will wear this cost. The Physical Retailer Reliability Obligation (PRRO), which will provide a new revenue stream to generators in the form of capacity payments, has been proposed by the ESB as […]
IEEFA
Renew Economy: Australia’s biggest energy retailer Origin Energy has announced a massive impairment of $1.6 billion after deciding to write down the value of its coal and gas assets, and also taking a hit on the value of its renewable energy contracts. Origin says the write downs are the result of falling wholesale prices – […]
IEEFA
Renew Economy: The Australian Energy Market Operator is to model a range of scenarios that include a zero emissions by 2035, at the same time as much of the nation’s transport and other energy uses also turn electric. The scenario, known as Hydrogen SuperPower, is one of five modelled by AEMO as part of its […]
IEEFA
Sydney Morning Herald: Australia’s second largest superannuation fund has completely divested from thermal coal and ploughed $1 billion into renewable and low-emission technology in the year since it declared it would reshape its business in line with climate targets. According to its progress report, Aware Super, formally First State, has reduced emissions in its listed […]
IEEFA
Time: Visitors entering a code-locked central control room at Green Mountain Power (GMP)’s Colchester, Vt., headquarters instinctively lower their voices, whispering in deference to operators relaying orders from behind semicircular clusters of screens. It’s an intimidating space; one side of the black-walled room is taken up by a display showing a sprawling, yellow-lit maze of […]
IEEFA
Renew Economy: Australia’s biggest battery – the 300MW/450MWh Victoria Big Battery near Geelong – has been registered and is about to begin production, but a supply shortfall is looming for future battery storage projects in Australia and around the world. The Victoria big battery will be about double the size of its stablemate, the original […]
IEEFA Australia: Reviewing access, pricing and incentive arrangements for distributed energy resources
Planning must begin for a zero-inertia zero-emissions electricity systemThe Australian Energy Market Commission (AMEC) has sought assistance to make distributed energy resources an integrated part of the national electricity market (NEM) for the benefit of everyone. When the NEM operating on the east coast of Australia was designed, there was almost no rooftop solar or other small generation, demand response or storage in […]