Long-time solar owners are feeling burned by falling feed-in tariffs and rising night time rates and flocking to batteries. It’s enough for one retailer to boost its outlets.
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Cooking with gas: How bad for your health is it, really?
Experts at UNSW maintain that cooking with gas is a net negative for health. So what is it about using gas stoves in the home that is so risky?
Home battery boom: Are we being worried and annoyed into adding solar storage?
Solar installers are reporting big increases in home battery sales – even though for many households the economic equation has hardly shifted. So what’s changed?
Households could save billions with smarter, more flexible electricity pricing
Major new report says Australian households could slash their bills by up to $3.2 billion by 2035 with the accelerated uptake of cost-reflective tariffs and incentives.
Mojo Power teams with Carbontrack to help customers control energy costs
Mojo Power joins forces with Carbontrack to give customers ability to monitor and control electricity usage remotely and gain better control over power costs.
Australia-wide energy management trial to give power to consumers, visibility to networks
Cutting-edge technologies to be rolled out to thousands of Australian households, business and schools, in 3-year project led by Sydney-based Wattwatchers.
Australia still doing bare minimum on new-build home energy efficiency
Australia is still building four in every five new houses to no more than the minimum energy standard – and that’s well short of optimal for environmental, economic and social outcomes.
NT councils offered grants to install solar, EV chargers, batteries
Northern Territory Labor government opens $2m grant scheme to encourage councils to move to better energy efficient infrastructure and reduce costs to consumers and taxpayers.
Show me the money: The business opportunity of grid-interactive buildings
Building owners should care about grid integration services because such services save them money, and can provide new sources of revenue.
Fridge chewing more power than it should? Ask your smart meter
Is your TV running? Not the opening line of a joke, but serious question smart meter giant Landis+Gyr wants to be able to answer for customers – before they even ask.