Tariffs

Switching water heaters to charge during the day can soak up solar and make sure electricity supply and demand match. A new, real-world trial has put this technique to the test.

A client recently presented us with a challenge: More than 2,000 properties that could have solar and batteries installed, but a limited budget. Here's what we found.

Since adding a home battery, I have been jousting with giants in the Great Game of Electricity Demand and Supply. Here is the score so far.

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

A "lowest in the market" daytime electricity usage rate is on offer in South Australia as part of a major shift to time-of-use tariffs. How does it measure up?

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

Nectr is offering a “never before seen” feed-in tariff of 50c/kWh solar sent to the grid between 4pm and 9pm, but only as part of its new virtual power plant.

Two-year trial underscores "huge potential" for virtual power plants to solve some of the grid's thorniest problems, as long as they can reward customers, too.

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

New partnership will use onsite solar and renewable energy purchased from the grid to slash the average social housing power bill by $400 a year. 

WA utility gets “overwhelming response” to offer of $100 credit to customers who allow it to temporarily turn off their home solar systems to stabilise the grid.

WA town that was shifted off the gas network and taken all-electric is ground zero for a new retail energy offer targeting households "locked out" of rooftop solar.

Two-way tariff trial delivers a daily profit to this solar household, peaking at times at $20 and making its Tesla Powerwall purchase a no-brainer.

Monash University study finds retailer incentives and tariff design will have key roles to play in making households smarter about power use.

AEMC recommends an accelerated program to install smart meters at all homes and small businesses in the NEM by 2030.

A data-driven, objective look at how 6.3kW of solar and a Tesla Powerwall have performed technically and financially over four years – with an EV added to the mix.