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Add 6.6kw #solar to your home
Add $5k system cost to $200k mortgage
Add $80/fortnight electricity saving to repayments
Save 5.5 years, $38k off your mortgage
Solar equivalent of 0.25% loan cut to mortgage
"Not installing solar now means you are not saving money" @ProfRayWills
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Hybrids were only ever a waypoint, and their story is often misunderstood
Hybrids are temporary solutions
PHEVs are conditional transition vehicles
As capability grows, BEVs are the final answer.
thedriven.io/2026/10/15/hybr… @TheDriven_io
@ProfRayWills @leRaffl @PeterNewmanCUSP
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Australia has trillions in super
Why is it so hard to fund the infrastructure that could lower future costs?
thepoint.com.au/opinions/261…
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Has Perth’s urban sprawl finally hit a wall?
Perth growth relies on a clear-and-flatten rule of biodiverse Banksia woodlands on the sandplain for housing
Now there are moves to reject the system
By @PeterNewmanCUSP and @ProfRayWills
thefifthestate.com.au/column… @FifthEstateAU
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Productivity is a means, not the destination. The true value of an economy is the benefit it delivers to people
Judge reforms by whether they lower real costs, improve household affordability and deliver lasting gains - and ask who benefits. And when.
The OECD secretary-general has warned Australia must lift productivity and overhaul economic settings rather than rely on rebates and handouts, while signalling that growing public frustration is creating an opening for political populism.
news24.com.au/politics/austr…
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
#ICYMI: The global #energytransition has entered a new phase👇
➡️Renewables remains the foundation of the transition.
➡️Electrification connects renewable power to end-use sectors.
➡️Energy efficiency delivers more with less.
➡️Grids, storage and flexibility make the system work.
Energy security, affordability, competitiveness and resilience are at the centre of the global energy agenda. Read more: bit.ly/47fQ39W
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Should Australia revisit or start another cash for clunkers scheme? Getting more aussies into cheaper to run and safer newer EV? Reducing our reliance on fossil fuels? thedriven.io/2026/10/04/its-…
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Top 5 science disinformation (lies) by vested-interest lobbyists + eg
1 Climate Science (climate change)
2 Energy Systems (renewables)
3 Envtl Toxicology (forever chemicals)
4 Public Health (vaccinations)
5 Nutrition (sugar)
Podcast snippet from 2022
xitter.cf/ProfRayWills/status/21…
Globally resolved surface temperatures
since Last Glacial Maximum
More simply: 24,000 years of global mean temperature & atmospheric CO2 levels
https://xitter.cf/t.co/Ywrs7J8EKI
Explainer for all climate change obfuscaters, deniers, trolls and #WeirdAF RWNJs
You're all wrong, bugger off
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Still Australia's largest solar hybrid DC connected battery project
Cunderdin project to Global Power Generation (GPG) owned by @Naturgy
Hybrid 125 MWdc PV solar + 55 MW / 220 MWh battery
Spanish energy giant in landmark solar and battery project in Australia
@SunBredPower sells Cunderdin project to Global Power Generation (GPG), a joint venture of @Naturgy and @kia_information
Hybrid 125 MWdc PV solar + 55 MW / 220 MWh battery
reneweconomy.com.au/spanish-…
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Yep be careful of the car hackers hacking your car as you drive past after you give it to them for 2 weeks to hack. Require them to install custom hardware to do it… meanwhile Australia data capture laws keep all your browsing data.
yr vacuum cleaner & washing machine are covered by Smart Device Standards, but not yr car. @JBarnettMW w the full story on #4corners hit on Chinese EVs
#auspol
youtu.be/Uvh5ZYE-xU8?si=nMCQ…
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
In Germany and the UK, cars are going electric while electricity goes green. Both at once
September 2026 new car sales:
>Germany: 34.5% fully electric, a record. BEVs an amazing +95% YoY
>UK: 28.3% fully electric, a record 99,201 cars. BEVs +36% YoY
>Add plug-in hybrids: In Germany and the UK, 45.3% of new cars had a plug
At the same time, German electricity was 60.7% renewable from Jan to Sep 2026, while the UK was 55.8% renewable in Q2, a record
Wires chewing pipelines
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
EVs bring less pollution, are safer, reduce reliance on imported oil protecting national productivity - and it is likely less taxes will be spent on EV fleets than on equivalent ICE fleets ...
Retire the clunkers - but make the transition fair
Targeted EV replacement scheme can cut transport costs, improve road safety and accelerate fleet renewal
Retire, Recycle, Replace, Recharge
Ray Wills, Peter Newman & Howard Buckley
thedriven.io/2026/10/04/its-… @TheDriven_io
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
China is on track to be the world’s 1st “electrostate”, with its economy powered by clean tech
It will handily beat its targets of peak emissions by 2030, rapid reduction by 2045 and being carbon free by 2060
ft.com/content/f86782fa-9f2e…
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Retire the clunkers - but make the transition fair
Targeted EV replacement scheme can cut transport costs, improve road safety and accelerate fleet renewal
Retire, Recycle, Replace, Recharge
Ray Wills, Peter Newman & Howard Buckley
thedriven.io/2026/10/04/its-… @TheDriven_io
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Mt Lawley Golf Club member Tim McAuliffe named Volunteer of Year in Golf Australia’s 2026 Natal Awards of Excellence helping lead MLGC volunteers since 2019 to bring >20,000 native plants to revegetate course, enable MLGC to be relocation site of 37 quenda
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Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Environmental Doomsday Clock 2026
Asahi Glass Foundation survey records renewed deterioration in expert environmental risk perception
The Doomsday Clock does not say the world lacks environmental knowledge or technical options, but an unwillingness to prosecute the solutions
Environmental Doomsday Clock
Questionnaire on Environmental Problems and the Survival of Humankind
Asahi Glass Foundation
af-info.or.jp/en/ed_clock/re…
In 2024, overall, we're slightly less convinced we're all doomed, but we're still certain climate change the greatest of all threats
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
The next race is not for liquid fuels
It is for cheap electrons
Global evidence shows electrification is no longer a distant or marginal pathway
The deployment of solar and batteries now represents the fastest energy shift in human history
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260…
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Germany is starting to build its planned national network of fast-chargers for electric trucks along its motorways, a key step for electric road freight
thedriven.io/2026/09/21/germ…
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Reinterpreting Canada's PM Carney:
With friends like these, who needs enemas?
A lesson to be learnt - and enacted - @AlboMP
Let's keep the Australian values we share with our allies like Canada and EU, and not practice poisoned sycophancy of sucking up to Trump
Sustainable Energy Australia retweeted
Solar alone met a peak of 102% of demand and WindWaterSolar met a peak of 128% of demand on Friday 9/18 on the @CaliforniaISO grid!
CAISO now has 24.27 GW of solar, 12.33 GW of wind, and 17.225 GW of batteries,
caiso.com/documents/key-stat…
which compares with its average demand over last 12 months of 24.3 GW.
Largely as a result, gas output is down 48%, wind up 23%, solar up 52%, batteries up 314% in '26 v '23.
WWS has met 56.3% of all demand in '26; Gas only 20.1%.
7 days straight & 193 of 261 (74%) in 2026 with WWS>100%.
