Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I say the above but I was involved in workshops on the VPP in WA and the group I was in was not super positive about the offering which involved very limited control of CER. Level of understanding and of incentive seemed to be the reason. Still, uncoordinated CER has some benefit, only way is up. 020
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026… unlocking this inflexibility broadly would make a big difference. 110
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Thank you for the confirmation. My CER has a lot of flexibility that is not being used for its highest and best purpose as the only thing I have to work with is a series of stepped tariffs and my habit of looking for true surplus renewables during the low tariff period, i.e., observing the weather.. 120
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Thanks for clarifying the source. Do you see the trend to 2026 that I see doesn’t match the trend following? If every EV on the road today had V2H/G, assume CER would be much higher (e.g only 25% of my storage is two-way)? Does the ISP take account of this in its CER? 100
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Its effect in WA as revealed in tariffs. From early to late 2010s peak pricing was 1100-1700 & topped out at 62c/kWh. Solar build out now has min demand at same time & priced at 8c/kWh. Residual peak pricing early evening is also much lower aided by stored solar and wind (more wind coming soon). 030
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Thank you. I am looking forward to seeing it. 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Another path. youtube.com/shorts/bDGJB...youtube.comMamdani fires back: “What is the Democratic Party if not its voters?”YouTube video by MS NOW 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I saw some interesting stats in this presentation from @mliebreich.bsky.social showing the historical pace of change in current context including the crossover in cost of battery storage cf pumped hydro. youtu.be/TZZgMeWrxks?...youtu.beElectrification Is Everything - Michael LiebreichYouTube video by Modo Energy 121
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Hi Dave. Just wondering if the declining cost of battery tech is affecting the VRE generation and storage mix assumptions. Video the other day from Michael Liebreich with a convergence in cost between pumped hydro and current battery prices - soon to be out of date - 11:00. youtu.be/TZZgMeWrxks?...youtu.beElectrification Is Everything - Michael LiebreichYouTube video by Modo Energy 100
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Great paper. Adds to the work we need doing to make sure we maximise the efficient deployment of renewables and minimise the need for storage (and maximise the use of what we have). 030
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026oh dear (equivalent, WA, off peak tariff, own solar even better): • 16c per litre (electric car); • 14c per litre (electric motorcycle); • 4c per litre (electric scooter / bicycle) • 0c per litre (bicycle), I am not buying it. 030
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026I am a fan of paying a fair and sustainable price for public transport that makes it the first choice for getting around. Our system is great. 120
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Perth has a very fair capped fare in place for a time now. In my experience this has increased public transport usage materially. Good forward planning for these times we are in. 140
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Here in Western Australian electricity retailer sells 8c/kWh electricity for 6 hours per day. Not free, but: • in an EV, the equivalent of 16c per litre of fuel; or • in a heat pump for hot water, the equivalent of paying 0.5c per MJ of gas. No wonder households are electrifying everything. 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026... and replace it with fossil fuels linked to expensive international pricing with inherent geopolitical risk and nuclear power that will be a capital suck and set baseload electric prices above the peak prices we pay for fossil now. 032
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 28/03/2026My EV (unsubsidised) has a lifetime energy use of 150Wh/km. With the grid here providing everyone with 8c/kwh for renewable dominated electricity (52c/kwh when fossil dominates the grid) I can drive 100km for $1.23. The LNP wants to take away each part of our way of life that is now cheap and … 285
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Merit order effect in Australia, renewables pushing out baseload coal and batteries pushing out peaking gas. 110
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026They were all moving to electric which will be the better outcome for both price and charging availability. I think we can all see today which of fossil, H2 and electric have followed the correct technology path for the current moment and, I would argue, the future. 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026All you need is a smart meter and to choose the time of use tariff with the free or reduced cost electricity made possible by other people’s excess solar. I have been doing this for years. 010
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026The American people have the power to choose a government that doesn’t lock them into a globally priced commodity while building tariff walls against the energy sources they could control at home. 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Renters can get solar for the price of a smart meter (usually free). Such renters in NEM States will soon get free hours of solar electricity. Here in WA, renters have had years of 8c electricity. Even more price sensitive households get it free. Cutting out fuel is a cost of living step change. 100
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I love how the edge case justification for electrifying my personal transport all those years ago - risk of interrupted foreign fuel supplies, is now the key selling point. Or if you are on the wrong side of the argument it’s the tiresome “drill baby drill”. 020
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026… solar will keep running if the sun is shining. 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026I also get the impression that modern BESS are being provided with built in islanding. BUT it is important to check when considering. A recent system proposed to an acquaint did have islanding but it was a walk to the battery and flip a switch type. If you want a UPS, check the specs and that your.. 110
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026… becomes ever more reliable as electrification increases and battery storage flattens the peaks and troughs. 110
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Had islanding capability for 7 years. I have had 16 outages (reported but not experienced of course) over that period. All momentary outages but four, which where for 21, 18, 11 and 2 minutes in length respectively. My conclusion is islanding is nice to have only. Assume the grid … 110
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Cool, so you have no fuel and no battery (or way of charging it) in that scenario. 010
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Like it or not, the best cars in the world are increasingly being made in China and to Canada’s advantage it now has access to them. North American carmakers could have decided to produce affordable electric cars at scale but, except for one example, chose not to. 1161
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 15/01/2026Car park at work filling with EVs but still no charging opportunity at win-win rates missing opportunity for both smoothed network usage and reduction in RE curtailment. 010
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 09/01/2026With all of the withdrawals there is a chance the writers‘ list for the Festival will be whittled down to just Mills & Boon. 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I invested in a PV farm over a decade ago taking up zero agricultural land. Maintenance used to be a hose down half way through dusty Perth summers until I worked out its minimal improvement on output meant that was a waste of that water. 071
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Hume says, overturning the ban is for “lowering emissions and energy prices”. This is incorrect. CSIRO Gencost, on both large scale nuclear and SMR (on SMR, GE costs for Canadian SMR validate Gencost) shows that nuclear build time and cost means that >emissions while we wait and >costs on arrival. 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025…A lot of people wanted low energy costs and (quite a few of us) to do something about climate change. Solar was it and now we are installing batteries like we want a tomorrow. 100
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Australia has seen solar as a good thing. Has taken a national approach to standards = cost reduction. Installers stuck around through the FUD of “the system can’t handle all of this VRE”. System operators were put back in their box when they claimed same… 100
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025…Your hard costs are less than in Australia. Or should be given you have 12x more consumers. 010
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025According to the report it is not “several” times cheaper, it is *7* times cheaper. The report either can’t be right or the US is in “failed State” territory. Australian figures are correct. I would check those US figures. I think you will find they are stupidly high but not that high. 110
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Renewables are expensive, initially. When I put panels on my roof the first kWh cost me just less than USD$4000, but to date the cost of each kWh produced has been USD$0.06. On the warranted path the eventual cost of each kwh will have been USD$0.03. Cheap. 010
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Those of us that chose not to have children and do the other things because we were clear eyed about this wondering who these people are we live amongst who have had children and seem disinterested in their future welfare. I have been told having children was meant to make you less selfish. 0110
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 13/10/2025On the plus side coal tar has been used for a long time to make hydrophobic dyes which would be useful to bring back colour to bleached coral. I have fond memories of otherwise lifeless coral skeletons kitsch coloured as keepsakes in Queensland tourist shops. 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 12/10/2025I will read with interest. BUT, can personally attest that electrifying everything drops “energy” bills by a very large amount. Getting petrol / diesel out of your life is a step change for savings. My original 2007 EV has had tyres and one wheel bearing replaced. My second 2021 EV, just tyres. 031
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025… Electrification of everything is in the same vein. Energy services used to be a major cost for my household. Removing all fuel and gas has made energy services an insignificant cost now. Massive drop in emissions too. 000
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025… and Snowy 2.0 have, at the least, been sub-optimal decisions and consider why they were so (political fixes always lead to compromised outcomes?). What has worked? Declining subsidies over time to prove the premise that renewable energy was going to be cheaper upon mass adoption… 100
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Ah, whoops. It would be good to see the spruikers’ response to round out the view given this is a 150 year asset. At $2B this would have been a good deal as not too much capital was tied up in it. Point should be taken by decision makers that the multi-technology mix for NBN … 100
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2025… grid discharge really is a VPP thing unless pricing is very dynamic. They could of course do this and battery software control could handle it, but they would have to reward for capacity not just energy over here. I think we have a decent balance. Aside from Amber, TOU in the NEM is no good. 010
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Yes there is but outside of a VPP (which value is questionable) the best price you can get is 10c/kWh feeding into, effectively, the peak period (when they sell for 53c). With the FiT (before peak) being 2c, they are encouraging self storage of own solar or grid charging and not grid discharge… 110
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2025We gave up a lot of potential power for a lot more energy. Strategic use of that energy will now be key to making sure the investment enables the renewables transition. 100
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2025There is a chance that someone will just build another one somewhere else which is not the same as a certainty of building it here. Perhaps Murray doubts the certainty part? 030
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2025… Only thing missing from the tariff is the opportunity to avoid the capacity charge (capacity market here). Not trying to avoid paying my share but never taking during the peak does save the community the highest costs of generation. Grid costs are somewhat factored into the tariff. 220
Adam Lippiatt @adamlippiatt.bsky.social · 07/10/2025… Cheap is high renewables low grid congestion and expensive is high fossil and a congested grid. Just plug the tariffs into the battery and BEV and all charging is done during the 8c period. … 110