John McCluskey

There’s no doubt that the advent and development of solar energy technology has been a significant advance in supplying the world’s power needs. While our ancestors figured out how to harness some energy from the wind, via windmills, all they could really extract from the sun was some heat. Things have changed since the fairly… Read More

As we’ve discussed previously, Australia leads the world in the proportion of households with rooftop solar energy systems, with about one in six homes now having photovoltaic panels on their roofs. That level of adoption would suggest that most Aussies know we have plenty of sunshine and that sunshine can be turned into power. But… Read More

We’re still getting days in the high 20s and into the 30s, and we haven’t seen any decent rain for two months, so the prospect of colder weather is probably not yet on your radar. But it should be. After all, we live in Victoria so, depending on where you are, you’ve probably got little… Read More

Whenever we write and post about what’s happening in the energy industry in Australia, we get a lot of quite passionate comments, many of which point to a belief that governments and regulators aren’t doing enough to address existing issues, let alone set us up for the future. This prompted us to have another look… Read More