oh dear (equivalent, WA, off peak tariff, own solar even better):

• 16c per litre (electric car);

• 14c per litre (electric motorcycle);

• 4c per litre (electric scooter / bicycle)

• 0c per litre (bicycle),

I am not buying it.

I am a fan of paying a fair and sustainable price for public transport that makes it the first choice for getting around. Our system is great.

Perth has a very fair capped fare in place for a time now. In my experience this has increased public transport usage materially. Good forward planning for these times we are in.

Here in Western Australian electricity retailer sells 8c/kWh electricity for 6 hours per day.

Not free, but:

• in an EV, the equivalent of 16c per litre of fuel; or

• in a heat pump for hot water, the equivalent of paying 0.5c per MJ of gas.

No wonder households are electrifying everything.

... and replace it with fossil fuels linked to expensive international pricing with inherent geopolitical risk and nuclear power that will be a capital suck and set baseload electric prices above the peak prices we pay for fossil now.

My EV (unsubsidised) has a lifetime energy use of 150Wh/km. With the grid here providing everyone with 8c/kwh for renewable dominated electricity (52c/kwh when fossil dominates the grid) I can drive 100km for $1.23. The LNP wants to take away each part of our way of life that is now cheap and …

Merit order effect in Australia, renewables pushing out baseload coal and batteries pushing out peaking gas.

They were all moving to electric which will be the better outcome for both price and charging availability. I think we can all see today which of fossil, H2 and electric have followed the correct technology path for the current moment and, I would argue, the future.

All you need is a smart meter and to choose the time of use tariff with the free or reduced cost electricity made possible by other people’s excess solar. I have been doing this for years.

The American people have the power to choose a government that doesn’t lock them into a globally priced commodity while building tariff walls against the energy sources they could control at home.

Renters can get solar for the price of a smart meter (usually free). Such renters in NEM States will soon get free hours of solar electricity. Here in WA, renters have had years of 8c electricity. Even more price sensitive households get it free. Cutting out fuel is a cost of living step change.

I love how the edge case justification for electrifying my personal transport all those years ago - risk of interrupted foreign fuel supplies, is now the key selling point. Or if you are on the wrong side of the argument it’s the tiresome “drill baby drill”.

… solar will keep running if the sun is shining.

I also get the impression that modern BESS are being provided with built in islanding. BUT it is important to check when considering. A recent system proposed to an acquaint did have islanding but it was a walk to the battery and flip a switch type. If you want a UPS, check the specs and that your..

… becomes ever more reliable as electrification increases and battery storage flattens the peaks and troughs.

Had islanding capability for 7 years. I have had 16 outages (reported but not experienced of course) over that period. All momentary outages but four, which where for 21, 18, 11 and 2 minutes in length respectively. My conclusion is islanding is nice to have only. Assume the grid …

Cool, so you have no fuel and no battery (or way of charging it) in that scenario.

Like it or not, the best cars in the world are increasingly being made in China and to Canada’s advantage it now has access to them. North American carmakers could have decided to produce affordable electric cars at scale but, except for one example, chose not to.

Car park at work filling with EVs but still no charging opportunity at win-win rates missing opportunity for both smoothed network usage and reduction in RE curtailment.

With all of the withdrawals there is a chance the writers‘ list for the Festival will be whittled down to just Mills & Boon.

I invested in a PV farm over a decade ago taking up zero agricultural land. Maintenance used to be a hose down half way through dusty Perth summers until I worked out its minimal improvement on output meant that was a waste of that water.

Hume says, overturning the ban is for “lowering emissions and energy prices”. This is incorrect. CSIRO Gencost, on both large scale nuclear and SMR (on SMR, GE costs for Canadian SMR validate Gencost) shows that nuclear build time and cost means that >emissions while we wait and >costs on arrival.

…A lot of people wanted low energy costs and (quite a few of us) to do something about climate change. Solar was it and now we are installing batteries like we want a tomorrow.

Australia has seen solar as a good thing. Has taken a national approach to standards = cost reduction. Installers stuck around through the FUD of “the system can’t handle all of this VRE”. System operators were put back in their box when they claimed same…

…Your hard costs are less than in Australia. Or should be given you have 12x more consumers.

According to the report it is not “several” times cheaper, it is *7* times cheaper. The report either can’t be right or the US is in “failed State” territory. Australian figures are correct. I would check those US figures. I think you will find they are stupidly high but not that high.

Renewables are expensive, initially. When I put panels on my roof the first kWh cost me just less than USD$4000, but to date the cost of each kWh produced has been USD$0.06. On the warranted path the eventual cost of each kwh will have been USD$0.03. Cheap.

Those of us that chose not to have children and do the other things because we were clear eyed about this wondering who these people are we live amongst who have had children and seem disinterested in their future welfare. I have been told having children was meant to make you less selfish.

On the plus side coal tar has been used for a long time to make hydrophobic dyes which would be useful to bring back colour to bleached coral. I have fond memories of otherwise lifeless coral skeletons kitsch coloured as keepsakes in Queensland tourist shops.

I will read with interest. BUT, can personally attest that electrifying everything drops “energy” bills by a very large amount. Getting petrol / diesel out of your life is a step change for savings. My original 2007 EV has had tyres and one wheel bearing replaced. My second 2021 EV, just tyres.