Diligent regulation of the Australian rooftop solar industry has been crucial to its success, writes Clean Energy Council chief executive Kane Thornton.
With Australian power prices soaring, energy retailer Nectr has launched an interest-free buy-now-pay-later plan for solar and battery customers.
Australia’s electricity generators would be paid extra money to be available even if they don’t actually generate any energy, under a new mechanism proposed by the federal government’s Energy Security Board (ESB).
A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents is to end to the failed experiment of the national electricity market.