One year into the Cheaper Home Batteries program – How’s it going?
The program has added at least 12.4 GWh — more than quadrupling the home battery fleet in a year
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Space science PhD. Energy policy professional. I write about how AI infrastructure is reshaping the electricity system with a focus on Australia — and what that means for the rest of us. All views my own.
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Australia's entire data centre fleet uses less power than one aluminium smelter — for now
For all the attention data centres have received lately, it may surprise you to know that the average Australian data centre demand across Australia’s entire National Electricity Market (SA, Vic, Tassie, ACT, NSW, Qld) was around 63% (600 MW) that of one aluminium smelter’s average load (
Australia's Battery Boom: Who's Buying, Where, and What It Means for the Grid
One year into the Australian Cheaper Home Batteries program, Australia’s household battery storage has quadrupled to around 16 GWh.
Data centres in space: all the pros and cons
Data centres in space — crazy but maybe not quite as crazy as you think.
Claude's off-peak promotion is smart for servers, possibly bad for the grid
Anthropic’s off-peak Claude promotion is smart for their servers — but it could mean more AI compute when the grid is most stressed.
How exactly do data centres affect electricity prices?
Anthropic, the creators of Claude, are opening an office in Sydney as part of their expansion to Australia and New Zealand, which rank 4th and 8th globally on per capita Claude usage. What does this mean for Anthropic and Australia?
Australia’s electricity Market Price Cap is going up in July. Here's what that means.
Australia has the highest Market Price Cap for electricity in the world, and it's going up again in July. Here's why, and what that means.
Data centre demand forecasts, phantom load, and who pays?
A few interesting things on data centres and energy this week – one analysis places data centre demand on the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) as materially lower than headline figures suggest, Australia hasn’t yet figured out who should pay for it, and Anthropic promises they’ll pay for it for their US data centres.