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Liberal MP Craig Kelly said businesses and households in Australia are paying twice as much as Americans for their electricity. Is that true?
Batteries aren’t the only type of storage, and all types of storage have their role to play in the future grid.
The potential shutdown of Victoria’s Hazelwood power station could leave a large gap in coal-fired baseload generation. But other coal power stations have plenty of spare capacity to fill the gap.
Australia’s electricity market will be reviewed over the next six months, following South Australia’s state-wide blackout.
In the wake of South Australia’s blackout, politicians have blamed renewables for decreasing the state’s energy security.
Energy isolation would be more expensive and less secure.
Rwanda has adopted a number of plans to improve its electricity output. There are valuable lessons other African countries can learn from it.
There’s a wealth of climate policies to choose from this election – but what will they do electricity prices?
Africa still has numerous electricity challenges to overcome, but several countries are getting it right when it comes to providing electricity to their people.
Smoothing out variable wind and solar is a growing problem. Instead of storing energy with batteries, utilities can adjust the power of millions of devices in buildings and homes.
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