Agriculture Victoria has rolled out the first and second actions in the Victorian Government's $30 million Agriculture Energy Investment Plan: free on-farm energy assessments and on-farm energy grants. What’s an on-farm energy tier 1 grant? These provide support to...
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Solar SRES Stays Intact
"After weeks of behind the scenes lobbying by the CEC, common sense has prevailed and the Coalition party room has ignored the ill-considered and unjustified proposal to abolish or change the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES). This is a win for rooftop solar....
NEG Modelling Disbelief
Outrage has erupted in political and energy market circles over the failure of the federal government to produce any detailed modelling for the controversial National Energy Guarantee. There has been widespread disbelief about the claims of the Energy Security Board...
Win for Tesla, batteries, EVs and smart tech in Australian grid
Tesla and other proponents of virtual power plants and demand management schemes have scored a significant win after the country’s main energy market rule maker gave its support to the idea that they can compete freely on the wholesale electricity market. The decision...
Cleaning up Our Backyard
Today, by and large and large the residential and commercial adoption of renewable of energy efficiency technologies is mainly about energy cost reduction. In the longer term however it can be argued that its about establishing a roadmap towards sustainability... The...
Lowy Institute Poll – Climate change and renewables
In 2018, 59% of Australians (up five points) say ‘global warming is a serious and pressing problem’ about which ‘we should begin taking steps now even if this involves significant costs’. Almost all Australians (84%, up three points) say ‘the government should focus...
Changes to Feed in Tariff – Small Scale Solar PV
The Feed in Tariff's are set to change as of 1 July 2018 in Victoria. This is a credit paid to small renewable energy generation facilities which use fuel sources such as wind, solar, hydro or biomass. Importantly, a price of 29 cents per kilowatt hour is being...
How to reduce your energy bill
In Victoria, there are many licensed energy providers offering a range of energy contracts and plans. Their role is to sell you power and bill you for your energy usage. You do have the choice to choose your energy provider based on the price and service that best...
Government and Labor reach renewable energy target deal
Lisa Cox , writing for The Sydney Morning Herald (18/5/15) reports: A deal has been reached to reduce Australia's renewable energy target to 33,000 gigawatt hours after the government agreed to drop regular reviews of the scheme. The government and Labor reached an...
Victorian Government indicates support for ‘more affordable clean energy’.
Tom Arup, writing for The Age reports: "Emerging battery technologies that can help households and business better embrace renewable energy will be a focus of the state government's pitch to expand clean power in Victoria. In an interview with Fairfax Media, Energy...