Responses to climate deniers
Climate Action Network is a community based initiative to fight climate change. It has grassroots groups with distributed leadership throughout Australia. Its mission is to bring focus to climate change and climate action from Australians. Energy Matters attended a local community Climate Action seminar in Burwood, NSW, in the suburbs of Sydney on Monday April […]
Hydrogen cars: a renewable alternative to electric cars? Tesla beware!
In June in Sydney, Energy Matters went to the Australian Energy Storage conference and spoke to Ian McLachlan who is Senior Low Emission Site Specialist at Toyota, and learned a lot about Hydrogen cars! It’s really fascinating. What is a Hydrogen Fuel Cell vehicle (HFCV)? Both EVs and HFCVs run from electric motors. It is […]
How do I find out if my solar power system is performing? Part 2
One of the things that the keen solar power system owner is going to do is to compare what their system says it is generating and what the electricity retailer is paying you for the power you feed in to the grid. If you choose right, then you will have a system that gives you […]
How do I find out if my solar power system is performing? Part 1
Who doesn’t want to save money? And help save the planet at the same time, of course. But let’s be frank, most people get a solar power system to reduce their power costs. In a lot of cases, the savings show up in reduced power bills. But for the more analytical, we want to find […]
Solar Citizens 2019 Survey
Solar Citizens have recently launched their annual solar survey: https://www.solarcitizens.org.au/survey_2019 The solar lobbying organization has been running the survey for five years now. It provides a comprehensive snapshot of Australia’s rooftop solar owners (e.g. what type of system people have, environmental and financial factors, barriers for the solar industry/consumers, campaign priorities for solar consumers).We urge […]
If Adani was a wind farm there would be 4.7 times more Aussie jobs
Edward Treloar is a fourth year engineering student from the Australian National University, majoring in renewable energy systems. He has written the following article about the misrepresentation of the coal industry as a hotspot for jobs and that renewables are merely the environmental option, rather than a green energy jobs creator. Edward is on LinkedIn. The […]
Climate Action Network: a community initiative to fight climate change
Climate Action Network is a community based initiative to fight climate change. It has grassroots groups with distributed leadership throughout Australia. Its mission is to bring focus to climate change and climate action from Australians. Energy Matters attended a local community Climate Action seminar in Burwood, NSW, in the suburbs of Sydney on Monday April […]
Solar Panels Rebate turbo-charges uptake of solar in Victoria
The following is an article on the Victorian solar panels rebate from MASH (More Australian Solar Homes) written by the Program Lead, Jo Kaptein. A massive 260 households have ordered solar through MASH since the 19th of August 2018 when the Victorian State Government solar panels rebate was announced. Worth up to $2225, the rebate is stimulating mega-demand through the […]
Victorian Solar Homes rebate extended to early adopter solar power systems
The Victorian Government’s plans to install subsidised solar power systems in homes over the next 10 years have been extended to include some homes with pre-existing installations, so-called early adopter solar power systems. According to the web site for the Victoria Solar Homes program the State Government states tha eligibility for the program has been […]
Home automation – energy savings or too many smart gadgets?
There’s a lot of tech out there for smart home automation systems that run all your energy savings devices. Smart gadgets, solar power for homes, lights and air-conditioning, are all coming together. Having everything together will also help households save money in the long run. Energy Matters has published a popular guide to smart home […]
