Why governments should subsidise household batteries to go with solar
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Renewables

Why governments should subsidise household batteries to go with solar

There are now 3.8 million households with solar. It’s time to push storage solutions,so households - and the grid - get the benefits by night as well as day.

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Bill shock means home batteries make financial sense,despite expense

Bill shock means home batteries make financial sense,despite expense

A quarter of a million households now have home batteries to store the electricity their rooftop solar generates and help them avoid sky-high power bills.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
Crackdown on low-quality appliances to fix faults with upgrades plan

Crackdown on low-quality appliances to fix faults with upgrades plan

A new $200 minimum payment on key appliance upgrades is being planned to weed out poor quality products from Victoria’s Energy Upgrades program.

  • byKieran Rooney
Generative AI moves from cloud into physical world

Generative AI moves from cloud into physical world

Questions asked on ChatGPT or AI-generated video made on Synthesys are transforming companies such as data centre operator NextDC and property giant Goodman Group.

  • bySimon Johanson
Sydney set for giant pumped hydro project to rival Snowy 2.0

Sydney set for giant pumped hydro project to rival Snowy 2.0

A green energy company backed by WaterNSW plans to use an abandoned coal washery as the site for a pumped hydro scheme big enough to power a third of the city’s households.

  • byNick O'Malley
Victoria’s revived SEC may not have to compete on level playing field
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Competition

Victoria’s revived SEC may not have to compete on level playing field

The new version of the State Electricity Commission looks set to be exempt from a levy designed to stop government businesses having a competitive advantage.

  • byRoyce Millar andJosh Gordon
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How Sydneysiders could save $730 a year by ditching gas

How Sydneysiders could save $730 a year by ditching gas

NSW residents could save $1.1 billion and the equivalent of 1 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions a year by swapping gas for electricity.

  • byCaitlin Fitzsimmons
The energy sector is having its Uber moment

The energy sector is having its Uber moment

Octopus Energy wants to give the global electricity market its Uber moment as renewable energy erodes the traditional relationships between power companies,their customers and the grid.

  • byColin Kruger
Power bills set to fall after two years of huge increases
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Energy

Power bills set to fall after two years of huge increases

Homes and businesses will start to feel relief from soaring electricity bills within months.

  • byNick Toscano andMike Foley
How the power bill changes will affect you

How the power bill changes will affect you

Electricity prices are tipped to fall across the eastern seaboard,but small price increases are coming for large pockets of the country.

  • byMike Foley andNick Toscano
‘Don’t disparage the science’:CSIRO hits back at Dutton on nuclear energy

‘Don’t disparage the science’:CSIRO hits back at Dutton on nuclear energy

The top science agency’s chief executive defends his agency’s work that found renewables or fossil fuels make cheaper electricity than nuclear power

  • byMike Foley