John McCluskey

When we had a look at the Australian Energy Regulator’s (AER’s) annual State of the energy market report we decided that the sections that covered the reliability and affordability of our energy warranted a separate article – so here it is! The report is 310 pages long so to save you the pain, we’ve tried… Read More

For more than 15 years the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has produced an annual State of the energy market report, reviewing the previous 12 months (financial year) across Australian energy markets and for energy consumers. When this year’s report was released last month, there were a couple of headlines (as usual), but not as much… Read More

Every day we read something about what’s happening in the energy market, either locally or globally. Some of what’s written about is speculative and might never come to fruition, some is reported from or slanted toward a particular perspective or agenda (although that doesn’t always mean we take it with a grain of salt), and… Read More

A couple of months ago, we wrote a blog post about Improved energy efficiency in Australian homes. It was prompted by the results of a CSIRO study which found that new homes were up to 50 per cent more airtight than those they had tested in 2015. Writing that made us think back to a… Read More

A couple of years ago, GloBird Energy launched the Free Lunch Plan. We wanted to incentivise a shift in energy usage where customers with the flexibility to use more energy during off-peak times would get some reward for taking a bit of the load off the system at peak times. We’ve been delighted by the… Read More

Nearly one in five cars sold around the world in 2023 was electric. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), almost 14 million new electric cars were registered globally in 2023, bringing their total number on the roads to 40 million. That means last year’s electric car sales were 3.5 million higher than in 2022,… Read More