Four years ago in the days before green hydrogen was the buzz word, pumped hydro was the buzz word. Or words. In March 2017 then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the 2000MW Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme, promising a price tag of $2 billion. Later that year a report from The Australian National University in …
Rooftop solar has been the runaway consumer success story of the decarbonising electricity market. More than 2.6 million households have stuck solar panels on their rooftops, with a combined capacity of more than 13,000 megawatts smeared across suburban Australia. The rampant popularity of rooftop solar has also created major technical and equity problems. Solar PV …
A scrum of companies and consortia have promised to build nearly 10GW of new battery storage in Australia. It’s a staggering number: more than 30 times the size of the current operational fleet. But there’s a catch. To date no one is making good on their promises unless they have secured a big chunk of …
