Early adopters of rooftop solar, and now battery storage, have got Australia’s energy revolution well underway. But what’s in it for those of us still smarting from a 200% increase in power bills? And how can we make the new energy market a fair one?
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Households will power half the grid by 2050, networks admit
Report from Australia’s main network lobby and CSIRO suggests that by 2050, nearly half of all future generation – and storage – will be on site in homes, business and communities.
Siemens partners with NY startup on blockchain microgrid
Siemens throws its weight behind the New York based blockchain microgrid start-up that has just set up office in Australia.
Enova reaches major milestone, looks to expand and try peer to peer trading
High solar tariff helps Australia’s first community-owned retailer reach major milestone, as it plans geographic expansion and push into new concepts such as peer-to-peer trading.
Powershop launches P2P solar product to Victorian customers
Local solar trading product launched to Victorian Powershop customers as “first in a series” of peer-to-peer products to be rolled out by the online retailer.
P2P energy sharing start-up brings Brooklyn Microgrid smarts to Australia
US pioneers of blockchain-based peer-to-peer energy trading, LO3, set up in Byron Bay with plans to trial its TransActive Grid technology in Australia.
Community solar with a view: Why sharing may be future of energy
NSW property development offers a tree change, and a share in an energy utility: a purpose-built, community-owned embedded network through which they can buy, sell and store solar electricity, peer-to-peer.
Millennials want solar, storage, shared energy – and an app for all that
A recent Accenture survey has asked Millennials – Australia’s second-largest cohort after Gen X – what they want from their energy providers. The answers are a clarion call to those utilities and retailers who still believe business-as-usual will do.
How Robin Hood brings community energy to the 7 Shires
A small revolution is taking part in the famous little surfer town Byron Bay..
Citizen utility: Housing estate to offer solar, storage and EVs to residents
New housing development in Fremantle will offer rooftop solar, battery storage, electric vehicles and peer-to-peer trading to its residents. Welcome to the “citizen utility”.