Tariffs

Free online tool will help households understand when and why to electrify everything – and how the humble hot water heat pump can crush power costs.

NSW solar households could get slightly less for the solar they export to the grid come July, despite forecasts of a further jump in power prices.

As electricity prices continue to rise, consumers are being told to shop around for the best deal. But where do you start? And how do you compare retailers?

AGL Energy bolsters efforts to improve energy affordability and protect those hardest hit by rising power prices, including through a rooftop solar fund.

New online simulator calculates the big savings – in dollars and emissions – households can make by getting off gas and upgrading their thermal efficiency.

Customers of Savant Energy will be powered by local solar farms as part of a new vertically integrated renewable energy business.

PowerPlay plans to use a tokenised system to share the benefits of cheap renewables with people currently excluded from using rooftop solar.

AER all but bans use of zero export limits for rooftop solar households, with strict new rules for network companies and a new layer of customer protections.

Is this the biggest Tesla Solar Roof installed yet? It may be. And when combined with six Powerwalls it's a nice little earner as part of a Hawaiian VPP.

In a new house, it's a whole new world of home energy management and "electrification" possibilities as we shoot for net zero grid electricity.

Electricity prices look set to go up again in winter and consumers are justified in asking: why is this happening? And is there an end in sight?

In a move that bucks the trend, pricing regulator proposes boosting regional solar feed-in tariff from 9.3c/kWh to 12.9c/kWh, starting in July.

While we can’t control when the sun shines or the wind blows, we can control the consumption in homes to match those times.

Victoria cuts the minimum flat-rate solar feed-in tariff again, despite soaring power prices. But there are some upsides for the state's solar households.

Pressure is growing on solar households to maximise self-consumption of their rooftop PV as regulators chip away at the value of solar exports.

A long-term Arena project aims to answer a key question: how much data do network operators need to allow rooftop solar export flexibility?