The coal smashing records that Peter Dutton does NOT want you to know

I started adding solar to my house 10 years ago (when I got my first Tesla). I now have 6 arrays totaling about 18 kW which meet about 70% of my electricity needs (including two EVs).
All of the solar has paid for itself many years ago so now I have free electricity from the panels. Current electricity price has gone up to $0.30 kWh so thousands of dollars a year saved.

Emission-free not renewable. Bio-fuels are roughly comparable to fossil fuels in their emmissions, but they are renewable. Solar, wind, and batteries are the future. That's what you say.

Why are politicians so DUMB, the recent loss of power to Broken Hill. Why not put a big “battery” or batterie’s out there with double the amount of solar panels needed, then hopefully when the next big storm hits they won’t be powerless for weeks, why the politicians decide who is to blame.

Sam made a good point that the chicken had come before the egg by building out the solar and delivery of that electricity has lagged behind . Utilities have to build out that infrastructure and it is costly and time consuming . Who pays for it and where does the investment come from ? Government plays a big part providing tax incentives as these are public companies who need to make share holders with adequate profits . This is where prices for customers keep going up . Maybe once the infrastructure is built out you coukd see lower prices but i think the only way to lower energy costs for a homeowner is to have your own solar system and pare that with an EV and home charging . The key to the future is not these mass solar farms and massive transmission lines ( at least not for your sunny locations ) its going to be improved solar panel efficiency and improved energy storage at home to be conplely independent from the grid . Impoved energy efficency from electrical appliances and especially for heating and air conditioning.

Now government plays an important part to that which trump is not interested in but elon may have his ear but he is on the kick of reducing government debt so i sense their will be backtracking on the green revolution at the federal level . Air quality and water standards maybe reversed . California will have a battle with trump as they did in the past over emmision standards but they are shoring up thise defenses to keep the standards in place

Enough talk about you own solar

Where do you get your information from

Tell me what happened in broken Hill

Why is the government working to charge US to have rooftop solar

I like to see that solar and wind is doing well. The better renewables do the less valuable oil becomes, and the more it hurts Russia. Also the more unlikely that trump will do his " drill baby drill " bit.

Boy arent the leftards out in force at present. All having whinges. You leftard s arr so pathetic

We need nuclear power to survive nuclear winter or asteroid impacts and volcanoes that fill the atmosphere with particles that reduce solar power.

There's not a calculation on this planet that proves "renewables" will take the place of fossile fuels. Not possible.

Thanks Sam

25 million tons of earth have to be mined to get ONE lithium battery. Mining, and especially strip mining is REALLY good for the environment. I bet they power that mining machinery with sunbeams and horse farts too not diesel fuel.

The real head line should read 'Taxpayer subsidies artificially boost unreliable energy to new levels'

My 3kw solar system only gave 200-300w on a gloomy day in November it’s ok but not a total solution to my power needs…

The weather patterns at this point of the year is awful and renewables isn’t enough…

That’s why thorium nuclear power is the other half of the equation especially in the north hemisphere of the world…

Who do we export coal and gas to?

You are a huge part of this movement with your reporting🎉!

My Business electricity doubled in July, up by $67,000 a year. Thanks solar cheaper my ass.

Great news and you are consistent with AEMO's energy dashboard which states the following...
We're aiming to enable 100% renewable energy at any point in time

Our goal is to co-design and co-engineer the NEM and the WEM to manage 100% instantaneous penetration of renewables at any moment on any day by 2025.

Do you believe this will happen??

I'm worried that the revised ISP is not going to deliver Nirvana to us.

Battery technology not to scale. Pumped hydro not reliable. Gas too expensive. I worry that the dream may turn bad on us.

Once people begin to use their vehicle batteries to supplement their household use, solar will make an even bigger impression on fossil fuel generation! Bring it on! 👏👏👏

I think solar on roof with battery and electric cars is fantastic. Energy transfer from battery to wheel of the car is the breakthrough. As compared to combustion. BUT, wind and solar are NOT RENEWABLE. They are free energy only once intermittent power pays for the cost of land, tower or solar panels. They last for 20 years? Then need to be rebuilt. Have you seen how much land has been taken away from primary production. NO subsidies for wind and solar and see how it goes. As you are the expert could you please give me the benefit cost analysis of wind and solar as compared to coal over 50 years please. Thank you.

How does curtailment actually happen? What becomes of all that disposed of energy?

Never trust a guy who talks out of the side of his mouth. It is an unconscious response to telling porkies.

A better idea than vehicle to grid, is to take batteries from old EVs, and stack them up as grid batteries. This will work best with the latest EV batteries from China which have longer lifetimes than the car itself.

Peter no no will stop this.

You can’t just solve everything with batteries. We’re already mining the ocean floor for lithium were does this stop

I can see a lot of shaded rooftops under those panels.
Solar water panels heat water, and PV panels shade the roof from that heat. That's a lot of heat per m² and greater area m² covered by the PV panels.

Drill baby drill.

D J Trump 🇺🇸

There is a limit to how much intermittent electricity the grid can sustain without adequate storage or idle gas stand-by generation to back it up. All this intermittent electricity generation is causing market volatility (the price of electricity during times of low solar and wind resource) and is driving up the cost of grid electricity. That means higher costs for everything. That is why we need nuclear energy, to provide for baseload demand. Dutton is not anti-renewables, he just can see the looming disaster of sky-rocketing prices.

Looking at our power bill, through spring we are generating about 8 times the electricity that we use, using the car as storage will be important for us. yes change is on the march.

narrabri under ground coal mine - extension approved !
ravensworh under ground coal mine - extension approved !
dartbrook under ground coal mine - due to export coal may 2025 !
newstan under ground coal mine - preparing for production !
malabar under ground coal mine - brand new mine, cutting the drift's, soon to produce
PWCS - record export tonnage this year
minns government to jail protesters stopping coal trains
protesters planning to interrupt coal ships leaving port of newcastle, now in court

SAM... what have you been smoking ?

Need more wind, especially offshore wind for Autumn winter in Victoria especially. Heating is the big user of power in Victoria and with people moving from gas to electric demand is going to increase significantly.

Renewables. But how much destruction justifies the renewables. Going nuclear would save so much of the environment. We have to remember RENEWBLES require ongoing replacement of all this solar panels and wind turbines. For how long do we support replacing. Without getting cheaper power

Can you guarantee that no child slave labor was used to mine the chemicals needed to make solar and batteries

Sam - your fav company Xpeng launched their Kunpeng Range extender hybrid system and that is going to be the future of the automobile industry .... 430 kms pure electric range and that can be extended when needed by an engine that only charges the battery with a total range of 1400 kms....nobody will ever need the engine, but it's presence eliminates range anxiety...pure EV mode will be used 80-90% of times...this is exactly what customers want...an EV with a backup engine which they'll never use but who's presence gives them peace of mind

I guess anyone without solar now is the odd man out 😮😅

Having 170w panels on my house is totally useless these days they are only 12 years old but need to be swapped over for some 440w panels as my power bill has skyrocketed in recent years

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Just wait until these storage batteries catch fire and spew out their toxic fumes, we will see how wonderful renewable energy is then.

Solar on houses is a no brainer, but you still need baseload, which it can’t provide, inescapable fact.

I’m sure the people of Brken Hill agree with you

It is the way of the future but rushed into too quick.

Nowhere in the world runs just on renewable. Just look at Germany.

Your dreaming right. Broken Hill is the most prominent example of solar and turbines and battery full failure, and that gutless energy minister could not stand up and explain such a dismal performance. Your EV charging is pathetic. Lets see what happens when the brown outs start.

I saved $8000 in my first year of being off-grid. I used that $8k to add an additional 18kWh of usable battery storage. My EV has cost me $340 to run for 15 months and do 23,000km. What's not to like about renewable energy?

Absurdity Sam, the truth is hydro carbons remain on a tear, setting new worldwide highs year upon year, solar and wind are additive not replacing oil gas and coal