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We’ve obviously been doing lots of things along the way, both to secure supply and distribute it better and see those price pressures come off. We have seen some price reductions, but we want that to go further.
Read more...It’s great to be here in Carnarvon with Premier Cook, and as he said yesterday, we announced the Albanese and Cook Labor Governments triggering all those disaster recovery funding arrangements to support the communities affected here in Western Australia by Ex-Tropical Cyclone Narelle that caused carnage right across Australia from Queensland in the beginning, and then the Northern Territory, and then finally, here in Western Australia.
Read more...Well, it’s a global crisis. We’ve got a war in the Middle East, and it’s putting unprecedented pressure on fuel supplies, and then that is cascading into lots of other areas of life. The response by the International Energy Agency in coordinating that global release of stocks that we’ve participated in as one of the things that we’ve done is the largest response that they’ve ever coordinated.
Read more...Well, it’s one of the biggest batteries to be delivered in Australia, probably the third biggest in Australia, the second biggest in New South Wales, 500 megawatts, 1000 megawatt hours. It’s a two-hour capacity battery. It could power 200,000 homes across that period.
Read more...And this is a great example here, the Liddell big battery, one of the biggest batteries in Australia, adding additional storage, while we see more and more renewables come into the grid, soaking up that cheap and abundant solar energy and allowing us to redeploy it at peak times.
Read more...The amount of fuel that we hold in Australia is significant, certainly a lot more than was available under the coalition, and fuel is still arriving and being refined in Australia. So those parts of the system are working well, but we’ve got these localised shortages, which are a factor of supply chain challenges, and those really, really big surges in localised demand.
Read more...Yeah, I’m really pleased today to say that what has already been a dead set winner, this Electrify 2515 project is going to get bigger and better. It’s a project that looks at how households, when they switch to electric appliances, and efficient electric appliances in particular, can save money.
Read more...So, the underlying cause of those cost pressures is the reality of climate change, and you have to be serious about tackling that. And we are, both in reducing emissions and being part of global cooperative action, but also in increasing risk reduction and resilience In Australia. We’ve got a billion dollars in the Disaster Ready Fund. The Northern Territory has benefited under that the first couple of rounds, I think, 13 projects and $20 million of funding, in the third round of the DRF, all of the five applications put forward by the NT have been supported.
Read more...Thanks Luke, and it’s great to be here with Luke in his seat of Solomon and Rapid Creek at the home of Lorenzo to talk about the Albanese Labor Government’s work to advance the uptake of renewable energy and storage in Australia, particularly through the Cheaper Home Batteries Program.
Read more...The Australian Government is investing nearly $25 million over three years to deliver a new national pilot for recycling solar panels, we need to lift the effort in the way that we coordinate recycling.
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