The federal government is facing renewed pressure to extend and expand the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) to include incentives for home batteries and electrification, after the latest national report card found major gaps in Australia’s emissions reduction progress.
Energy Savings Industry Association (ESIA) says that while the federal SRES has helped Australia become a global leader in rooftop solar uptake, the “untold story” is the lack of policy action at the federal level on reducing gas use.
This was evident in the federal government’s latest annual emissions projections report 2024, released last week, which showed emissions from gas have increased from 2005 levels while transport emissions have also increased.
The federal government is facing renewed pressure to extend and expand the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) to include incentives for home batteries and electrification, after the latest national report card found major gaps in Australia’s emissions reduction progress.
Energy Savings Industry Association (ESIA) says that while the federal SRES has helped Australia become a global leader in rooftop solar uptake, the “untold story” is the lack of policy action at the federal level on reducing gas use.
This was evident in the federal government’s latest annual emissions projections report 2024, released last week, which showed emissions from gas have increased from 2005 levels while transport emissions have also increased.
ESIA says a revamped SRES would be a “reasonable proven and effective mechanism” to address this problem, by shifting the scheme’s objectives to support electrification, including discounted home batteries and incentives to get off gas and install electric, energy efficient appliances.
As it stands, the incentives currently offered by the hugely successful SRES – for rooftop solar and solar hot water and heat pumps – are being dialled back gradually ahead of the scheme being phased out in 2030.
“The Commonwealth government needs to revamp the SRES instead of killing it off at the end of 2030,” says Esia president Ric Brazzale.
“Australian households and businesses need more equitable access, and industry needs the signals to invest and deliver upgrades nationwide.
“The SRES needs an ambitious target beyond 2030 to support these upgrade types which industry has proven can be delivered in a competitively priced and commercially viable way.”
Le Tribunal administratif réfléchit à annuler le projet #A69 ? Réfléchissons nous aussi à comment il a été combattu. Le jeudi 5 décembre des ami⋅es de la lutte organisent une soirée à l’EDMP (Paris 12) pour faire ensemble un point d’étape. #ClimateAction
Jeudi 5 décembre A partir de 19h 8 impasse Crozatier Paris 12e
Projection : Alliances terrestres Discussion : Inventaire des modes de lutte
Organisé per : Extinction Rebellion IDF, Les soulèvements de la terre IDF, Avis de tempête, La Déroute des routes
Out of the hundreds of cases of child sexual abuse that were analyzed in a Department of Justice–backed study, only 14 went to trial, and 10 resulted in convictions—about 2 percent.
Good job Mastodon! The sad and seemingly abandoned “Poetry Mailbox” in #bremerton #washington has been restocked with hundreds of your poems! I printed them out and cut them into shapes, and my wife decorated them too!
The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song. xkcd.com/3019/
Il aime bien faire son pti kapo autoritaire et capricieux. Pour une fois, j'ai apprécié une décision du pape : celle de refuser de participer à la cérémonie d'inauguration de cette cathédrale. Genre l'autre il se voyait comme quand le premier consul s'est couronné empereur en présence d'un autre pape.
Là, je souhaite juste qu'une chose : C'est que sa destitution soit actée et qu'il sombre dans les poubelles de l'histoire comme le petit autocrate nuisible qu'il a été ne mérite que de terminer... et que les autres fafs soient toustes inéligibles. (en fait ça fait 2 choses...)
Antimuslimsk retorik skapar otrygghet – polisens hårdare tag hjälper inte. ”Den här kriminalpolitiken som drivs är inte heller brottshämmande. Det är ingen som tror att visitationszoner är ett brottsförebyggande verktyg.” buff.ly/3ZjjdQS
Like I expressed earlier to many in our community I would love to host you all for a coming conference and thus I am working on an application which will hopefully get it to Gothenburg next time. :)
Some A$13 billion in taxpayer dollars and 30 years of policy reform have failed to arrest the devastating decline in the health of Australia’s most important river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, new research shows.
The four-year study released today involved 12 scientists from Australia’s leading universities, and draws on data from 1980 to 2023. It is the most comprehensive report card to date on government policies to protect the Murray-Darling.
We found expensive and contentious reforms, including the once-vaunted Murray-Darling Basin Plan, have mostly failed to improve outcomes for people and nature along the river system.
The result is deeply alarming for a natural asset so fundamental to Australia’s environmental, cultural and economic wellbeing. Here, we outline our findings, and present a plan to turn this situation around.
pluralistic.net/2024/12/02/boo… Can't tell you how much I appreciate this list and these summaries/reviews. Thanks, CDoctorow! (@pluralistic) I had just finished discussing a near future theme with my son. We were wondering what would happen if the human race faced sterilization. And if there was a work of fiction that addressed this. And BOOM! There it is on your list! 🎁
Israel killed more than 200 Palestinians in Gaza on Saturday, including 40 members of a single family.
Israel's onslaught has continued to kill medical and aid workers in recent days, including three people with World Central Kitchen, the head of the intensive care unit at Kamal Adwan Hospital, a staff member with Save the Children, as well as Mahmoud Almadhoun, who co-founded the Gaza Soup Kitchen.
By stopping UN food entering Gaza, killing food and aid workers they are effectively enacting Genocide by starvation and disease
This is a definition of pure evil.
We are wasting our time expecting our Governments to take action... But we can do something and not buy anything marked Product of Israel and shun companies supporting Genocide
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