Tariffs

If hot water ran off daytime solar, we could slash emissions and tame the solar duck

Switching water heaters to charge during the day can soak up solar and make sure electricity supply and demand match.…

November 15, 2024

Rooftop solar almost always pays off – but what happens when you add batteries?

A client recently presented us with a challenge: More than 2,000 properties that could have solar and batteries installed, but…

November 14, 2024

How my solar battery is battling coal on the open market – and the score so far

Since adding a home battery, I have been jousting with giants in the Great Game of Electricity Demand and Supply.…

October 17, 2024

Consumers need simpler energy bills, not more complicated tariffs

ECA opposes making time-of-use tariffs mandatory and wants a minimum three-year transition period for households to move to cost-reflective pricing.

October 10, 2024

SwitchedOn Podcast: How time-of-use tariffs could become a recipe for bill shock

Energy Consumers Australia CEO Brendan French on why cost-reflective electricity tariffs should not be mandatory – and should not make…

October 8, 2024

New time-of-use tariff dangles huge daytime power discount. So is it a good deal?

A "lowest in the market" daytime electricity usage rate is on offer in South Australia as part of a major…

October 2, 2024

How a Tassie retailer is helping Port of Brisbane to use more of its own solar

Momentum Energy signs Port of Brisbane to its Virtual Energy Network offering, which shares excess solar generated at one site…

August 9, 2024

Retailer offers huge 50c/kWh feed-in tariff to customers who join its new VPP

Nectr is offering a “never before seen” feed-in tariff of 50c/kWh solar sent to the grid between 4pm and 9pm,…

July 31, 2024

Groundbreaking trial shows how VPPs can pay for home batteries, slash costs on the grid

Two-year trial underscores "huge potential" for virtual power plants to solve some of the grid's thorniest problems, as long as…

June 21, 2024

Origin gets Kraken on household electrification, after disappointing on big solar and wind

Origin invests another $530 million in Octopus, in a sign that Australia's biggest utility might be honing on home energy…

December 20, 2023