100% Renewable Community Campaign; Press Release on WA cuts
BARNETT’S BIG SOLAR BETRAYAL The Western Australian State Government’s decision to slash the solar feed-in tariff rate by half is a complete betrayal of 75,000 West Australian households, say Solar...
View ArticleComplaint letter to the Premier of WA
Dear Premier Barnett Your recent announcement to retrospectively reduce solar FIT payments for Western Australian’s is a devastating blow to many. We have performed some preliminary analysis and...
View ArticleCEC Press Release on WA FIT cuts
Media Release Thursday 8 August 2013 WA solar changes to make families tighten mortgage belt Retrospective changes to the solar power support scheme in the Western Australian Budget strike at the...
View ArticleWA FIT cuts; caution, luddites at work
The Barnett Government’s budget announcement which aims to retrospectively cut FITs for 75,000 solar owners is a frightening example of Luddites at work. Today we spent several hours reviewing the...
View ArticleHow to pick a change point? When right wing conservatives back solar
As I’m sure you heard, the Western Australian Government reversed its decision to make retrospective changes to their FIT yesterday. This is a fantastic result for Western Australian solar owners and...
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Time of Use pricing signals work for me
Bill shock; we all dread the quarterly electricity bill and my first one under the July 2013 increase has just come in. Being a hopeless geek, I quickly uploaded the data to my spreadsheet, called my...
View ArticlePremier Barnett to target 567,000 WA home owners with fixed charges?
It stands to reason. Premier Barnett has proven he is a reasonable bloke by doing the right thing by solar owners in Western Australia who made an investment decision with his solar FIT. So when he...
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Solar PV scorecard released
We’ve talked a lot about the issues associated with selecting and ranking PV suppliers lately. It’s a big issue to grapple with so much change going on, so it was great to see that the Silicon Valley...
View ArticleTasmanian solar FIT changes announced
On Sunday 18th August 2013, Tasmanian Deputy Premier Bryan Green announced much-anticipated changes to the current regulations for solar owners; present and future. In a nutshell, current system...
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Energy costs shift; solar, externalities and subsidies
When I posted a story last week about the closure of traditional generators due to renewables by one of Germany’s largest electricity utilities, it created a passionate response and some good debate...
View ArticleSolar electric plane with 4,542,590 KM range. Nice.
Like most humans, I don’t particularly want a George Orwellian-like big brother watching my every waking moment. However, I do like the idea of better voice and data coverage, live mapping, ready...
View ArticleBreaking; SHW rebates cut
Although we are PV centric here, we see a critical role for all renewable and energy efficiency measures. Bad news today comes in the form of a Press release by the Parliamentary Secretary for Climate...
View ArticleCommunity owned PV for the apple Isle?
ABC news is reporting that the Tasmanian Government are considering investing $5M into a community owned PV farm. Tasmanian Minister for Climate Change Cassy O’Connor, said the Government is already in...
View ArticleBreaking – IPART REVIEW is out!
More after I have read the document but headline is a reccomendation of 5.2 to 10.3c kWh...
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Here’s (more) proof that renewables can out compete coal
Germany’s second largest energy company (RWE) made a stunning admission yesterday. Well, stunning if you have head your head stuck in the sand when it comes to the rapid evolution going on in the...
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Did you have a Clean Energy Week?
Clean Energy Week 2013 wrapped up on Friday night after 3 days of presentations, discussions and smooshing at the expo. In case you didn’t make it, here’s my wrap up of the key things we learned and...
View ArticleBREAKING – WA announces “solar sucks” (sort of)
Here we go again, Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett has today announced budget cuts including an astounding announcement to retrospectively reduce FITs for solar. This is a matter of sovereign...
View ArticleComplaint letter to the Premier of WA
Dear Premier Barnett Your recent announcement to retrospectively reduce solar FIT payments for Western Australian’s is a devastating blow to many. We have performed some preliminary analysis and...
View ArticleProtection for solar consumers; Solar Retailer Code of Conduct released
Unfortunately in life, there are always (a minority) of people and companies who just want to make a fast buck and don’t care about the legacy of selling poor quality products and services and the...
View ArticleNSW Energy Security Summit; rhetoric rules the day
Last weeks NSW Energy Security Summit was (yet another) example of how the Australian energy industry is seemingly incapable of anything but rhetoric when it comes to embracing change. They aren’t...
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