2024 has been a landmark year for household electrification, with Australia charging full steam ahead into a cleaner, brighter future.
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The current system overwhelmingly prioritises big energy companies, leaving consumers – who are the most reliable and consistent investors in clean energy – at a disadvantage. This imbalance demands urgent reform. This is not just a matter of fairness; it is critical to the success of Australia’s energy transition. The fastest way to bring down cost of living for households and national emissions is to press the pedal on electrification.
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For decades, the writing has been on the wall about the transition away from fossil fuels. Instead of preparing for this inevitable change, the gas pipeline operators have attempted to talk up their profitability with the fiction that everyone in the future will be cooking with green and affordable gas (green hydrogen or biomethane).
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The Electrify 2515 Community Pilot has received $5.4 million in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). This will support 500 households in the 2515 postcode to electrify their homes.
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Consumers - with solar panels, batteries, EVs and electrified homes - could play an enormous role in the generation and management of energy. If we’re going to get consumers to help drive this change, we’ll need an energy market that delivers with consumers in mind.
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By implementing retrospective tariffs to solar owners without additional market improvements unfairly frames solar as the problem rather than the solution to our energy transition. These changes are retrospective changes that penalise households for making investments in good faith.
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The next step on the journey to Net Zero is for the government to create a low-cost finance scheme for the millions of Australians who cannot afford the upfront investment to move off dirty, expensive fossil gas onto efficient, electric appliances powered by solar.
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Past governments created universal health care through Medicare and universal tertiary education through HECS. Now it’s time our federal government offers universal access to cheap, rooftop solar and efficient, electric appliances. With your continued support, we will help them develop the plans and muster the ambition to do it.
Read moreRewiring Australia is a non-profit, independent, non-partisan organisation dedicated to representing the people, households and communities in the energy system. We empirically demonstrate and communicate the cost savings, emissions reductions, and energy system benefits of electrification.
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