💧Heather Smith

Energy and climate change specialist, out to make a difference

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@reallianceaus and Community Power Agency have been advocating for Local Energy Hubs which weren't funded in the Federal Budget. If @C4CEau folk would like to hear where they are taking it next get along to this lunchtime briefing on Monday: https://t.co/E35YaPaTnj

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@sighmon @jazzkat @enosienergy @aaronyewi ...no one is giving you a good price for what you are doing. I believe we'll get there. we are seeing some trial tariffs for batteries but really evening output should be worth $$ and there should be a price signal to reward you for keeping the pressure on capital costs down

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@sighmon @jazzkat @enosienergy and @aaronyewi at People's grid are both models for sharing. This is a retailer game until we get better access to the networks. In essence your network is already sharing the physical product. Your retailer is already managing the financial aspect of the sharing but

[Corena @corenafund]

"CERES Fair Food wanted to provide carbon-free food deliveries... CORENA stepped forward and lent CERES Fair Food the money to purchase two Ford eTransit vans and install Zappi solar smart chargers to run them." Read more about Project 45 below!

https://t.co/Tq4KwIfCoy

#climate

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@marcsrhudson I’ve been thinking about strong ties and weak ties. So many institutions use the term “community “ to bring the warm glow to their work but none of the people in their customer base have worked together or made decisions together so the strength of relationship just isn’t there

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@ForceyTim @TimWilsonMP Not sure you have the right link there Graham. I found this https://t.co/SvexHXzeGz no transparency about who they are and what they’ll do with the info, but their FB has a bit more info. Reminds me of Good Empire and another carbon reduction site I saw recently.

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@sallyrugg @zdaniel Great time for a chat about tactical voting right? @zdaniel only needs to steal 3,000 of Tim’s votes and 25,000 votes from Labor and Greens to be the second placed candidate before preferences. Then she needs strong preference flow and she’s over the line -bye bye Tim

[Corena @corenafund]

Renew Economy reports that the AEMO "assumes that coal closures will occur at three times the expected rate, and all the country’s brown coal generators could be gone by 2032." More.👇

https://t.co/IlcygFeknu

#Coal #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction #Climate

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@RaceFor2030 @TimKellyAdl @energyvoiceau @lynnegallagher_ @MonashEnergy @MonashUni To be clear. I meant the challenge that Tim has been banging on about for years. Lynne’s points are essential too but if we keep double counting and obscuring our emissions reductions, consumers will have even less reasons to trust the system

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@TimKellyAdl @energyvoiceau @lynnegallagher_ @MonashEnergy @MonashUni It would be good to see @RaceFor2030 take this challenge seriously

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@TimKellyAdl @energyvoiceau @lynnegallagher_ @MonashEnergy @MonashUni I can’t see it on the program Tim but the provenance issues of “green” hydrogen got raised yesterday and we will create the same problems all over again unless we have a proper forum for fixing the existing accounting flaws.

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@hannon_matthew I definitely have something similar. I have a pair in series and it’s only ever the globe that has power on one side that globes

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@blair_fix @doctorow Goldratt - tell me how you measure me and I will tell you how I will behave. If you measure me in an illogical way… do not complain about illogical behaviour

[Corena @corenafund]

#ElectricVehicles reduce your carbon footprint and have lower running costs. That's why we support #EVs as one of our #climate projects for #nonprofits! Here's how going electric can benefit you: https://t.co/lcyRjdYta6

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@Info_Aus Bring back the little bird

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@DavidOsmond8 Hi David, do you quantify the unused renewables anywhere? In a sense that gets to heart of @nickymison challenges. For much of the year the energy is available for flexible loads eg EVs. The seasonal mismatch helps start the long duration storage discussion

[Geni.Energy @EnergyGeni]

One week to go - book now to hear about the national energy market and the role of renewables from @simonahac https://t.co/8gRlqtb10H

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@AmberElectricAU Consider @CORENAfund if you’re switching to Amber!

[💧Heather Smith @changing_weathe]

@EnovaEnergy I think it’s also important that your constitution ensures that ownership doesn’t override voice. The max vote a shareholder can have is three votes, so if Shell was able to buy a majority of shares (unlikely), they still wouldn’t control the organisation.

[Corena @corenafund]

We were honoured to welcome Georgia Cooke and Phil Browne to our #committee at our AGM last month! Georgia (from Victoria) and Phil (from Queensland) have been long-standing #volunteers in our marketing team, and Georgia was previously co-opted to our committee.