Daily update: Regulator slaps down networks on more attempted gold-plating
Renew Economy editor@reneweconomy.com.au via mail68.atl51.rsgsv.net
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Regulator slaps down networks on more attempted gold-plating; AEMC paves way for changes in network pricing; Climate denying crusader behind Leyonhjelm RET campaign; Why Uralla wants to be first z-net town; Campaign launched for first community solar thermal+storage plant; What would success in Lima look like?; Why aren’t rural electric cooperatives champions of local clean power?; The micropower revolution is here; and Belectric unveils first battery storage facility.
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NSW networks want to charge 50% per cent more over the next 5 years than the regulator thinks is reasonable. The networks, it says, are still not taking into account lower peak demand, lower cost of capital, and potential efficiencies.
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Solar households face changes to how their bills are packaged after AEMC delivers new rules to impose ‘cost reflective’ pricing on networks.
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Senator leading charge to kill renewables is advised by former head of one of Australia’s most notorious climate science-denying, anti-wind NGOs.
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NSW town of Uralla wants to be Australia’s first zero net energy town, powered by 100% renewables, to boost local investment, address climate change.
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NGO campaigns climate-minded people to invest in development of Australia’s first citizen-funded community solar thermal + storage plant.
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Here are five things that need to happen at the Lima negotiations for them to be considered a success.
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Why are America’s rural electric cooperatives are tethered to dirty, old coal-fired power plants instead of local-wealth generating renewable power?
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Micro-electricity producers are relatively small scale, inexpensive, and most importantly, produce little to no carbon emissions.
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Belectric and Vattenfall cut the ribbon for a new battery storage facility at the Alt Daber solar power plant in Germany.
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