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"Given Peter Dutton’s repeated concern for the size of your energy bill, it is
intriguing that he doesn’t seem to realise how much households save on their
energy bills by switching to solar, converting their gas appliances to electric
and switching to an electric vehicle.
In releasing the modelling which supposedly costed their vision for our
electricity system, Dutton and shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien stated they
had assumed electricity demand based on AEMO’s Progressive Change scenario.
They declared they preferred this scenario over the Step Change scenario’s
vision of households switching almost completely to electric cars, dumping gas
appliances and embracing rooftop solar and batteries.
One wonders whether these two people are up to date with some of the remarkable
developments that have unfolded in these technologies recently:
– The price of solar modules has absolutely plummeted in the past 24 months,
and fallen below 10 cents per watt for large-scale buyers and less than 25
cents per watt for your average Australian sparky to buy from their electrical
wholesaler.
– After a brief rise in 2022, batteries for large-scale buyers have also
plummeted in price in the past 2 years, with battery packs falling by a
staggering 20% in just the last 12 months. According to
Bloomberg New Energy
Finance battery pack prices for vehicle manufacturers have now fallen below
the pivotal $100/kWh mark that is considered the threshold for when fully
electric cars out-compete petrol-fuelled cars."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
