by Pete Tickler | Jul 7, 2022 | Electricity Markets, Policy, Solar PV
Following my trip to the UK earlier this month I was struck by a couple of things related to solar PV investment. One was the weather; London turned on the sunshine big time. The other was the current trend in the UK energy market to dumb down price signals to energy...
by Pete Tickler | Jun 2, 2022 | energy
Back in late 2020 we had a look at the impact that an electric vehicle (EV) charging investment would have on the network costs for a 24/7 retail business – think fast food restaurant or service station – across the different Australian distribution...
by Pete Tickler | May 31, 2022 | energy
A couple of weeks ago I posted some analysis looking at how much battery storage I would need to add to my existing solar system at home to be fully self-sufficient & 100% carbon free with respect to my electricity consumption. The post generated a bit of interest...
by Pete Tickler | Apr 26, 2022 | Battery Storage, Solar PV
There’s much discussion in energy circles around how much storage will be required to deliver the zero-carbon energy systems the world is heading towards. We know we can build out renewable generation cheaply, but we also know we need storage to tide us through the...
by Pete Tickler | Dec 8, 2021 | Decentralisation, Electricity Markets, energy, Networks, Solar PV
Nudged along by Anthony Seipolt’s post on AGL Australia offering a new retail tariff incentivising residential customers to turn off their solar systems in return for some cash (importantly, more cash than they’d otherwise get from their feed in tariff),...
