146 - Elec vs Gas prices

The chart below shows the clear relationship between rising electricity prices and rising gas prices, using data from environment.gov.au, here  https://www.environment.gov.au/energy/publications/australian-energy-update-2017

141 - Household power and fuel costs - 1984 - 2016 Proportion

The history of household spending on power and electricity in Australia, going back quite some time. Source - by proportion - which is interesting. Power and gas hasn't increased as much as I expected it would have.

140 - Household power and fuel costs - 1984 - 2016

The history of household spending on power and electricity in Australia, going back quite some time. Source

052 - Aus energy intensity by state

The Office of the Chief Economist's Energy Statistics database is a comprehensive annual long-term look at Australian energy, within the Government's Department of Innovation, Industry and Science. The chart below is extracted from their 2016 report and shows total energy intensity - the number of gigajoules consumed per unit of Gross State Product (GSP).

051 - Aus energy consumption per capita by state

The Office of the Chief Economist's Energy Statistics database is a comprehensive annual long-term look at Australian energy, within the Government's Department of Innovation, Industry and Science. The chart below is extracted from their 2016 report and shows total energy consumption per capita.

020 - Public support for SA's energy plan is surprisingly apolitical

South Australia's energy plan announced recently - as you might expect, it drew a flurry of coverage, criticism and support.

Most interesting to me has been the general public's response - it's a plan that's well supported by most people, regardless of who they vote for. This is quite unique in Australia energy policy, with most plans, measures and policies featuring distinct differences between parties. Not so, with this one.

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019 - SA - output by fuel type

A simple chart below showing the average monthly output of South Australia sources of electricity, in megawatts, for the decade and a half (ish) - notable for the decline of coal, upswing of wind and up and down of interconnector flows. Source - NEM-Review.

017 - Queensland dominates rooftop PV penetration

As part of the ABS' recent data release on employment, an update of recent installation data on rooftop-PV was included, shown below. Queensland dominates. It's very sunny there.

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007 - Decreasing demand in the National Electricity Market - but peaks haven't changed that much

How has demand changed in the Australian NEM over the past few years? The chart below splits that up by state, and includes minimum and maximum half-hourly demand for each year. Read the market operator's demand forecasting report here - data below via NEM-review, Demand is down, but the maximums haven't changed to quite the same degree.

002 - Changes in NEM generation over the past ten years (ish)

Chart number two - showing how total power output on the National Electricity Market has decreased, and how a sliver of wind and solar are adding to hydro in pushing down the output of thermal generation. Data courtesy of Nem Review.

001 - Trust in power companies

First chart! A new Essential poll finds that power companies are the least trusted among a range of industries - it's a bit up from 2013, but still really quite a fair bit lower than other industries, including the mining industry. Source.