'Wonderwall' has Matthew Wright in awe - 'a utility killer'

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esla’s 'Powerwall' has been released to much acclaim. Tesla’s founder Elon Musk says that his company’s battery storage product doesn’t need any marketing and it will sell itself. You can see by the buzz and countless articles from every news outlet around the world reporting it that he’s pretty much right.

Matthew Wright - he is in awe of
Elon Musk's "Wonderwall".

Tesla has gone to market with its home commodity battery storage product using the opposite model of what it has for its cars. Where Tesla's cars were released initially at an absolute premium and differentiated with style and performance, the Powerwall is cutting the price by more than half when compared to existing options on the market.

The Powerwall will come with a computer and some smarts in-built. This should provide the ability to send power out based on a pre-programmed schedule to take advantage of time-of-use/flexible tariff structures. In Australia, that can mean as much as 15-30c/kWh (kilowatt-hour) difference between buy and sell price. Furthermore there will be the ability to receive a signal for when solar production is in full swing, and for those on market based feed-in-tariffs (6-8c/kWh) they’ll be able to charge the battery during these times.

Read Matthew Wright’s story on Climate Spectator here: “In awe of Elon Musk’s wonderwall – a utility killer”

Oligarchy enthhusiast declares renewable energy adherent as 'public enemy'

The democracy naturally embedded in renewable energy appears to unsettle many influential Australians who claim to champion democratic government, but who are actually agents of oligarchy.
 

Matthew Wright - an adherent to
renewable energy, but seen as
a public enemy.

Matthew Wright has long encouraged Australians, and Australia, to embrace renewable energy though Zero Emissions, but now has been described as public enemy No.2 behind the newly elected Victorian premier Dan Andrews.
 

Maurice Newman, the chairman of Tony Abbott’s Business Advisory Council, has declared Mr Wright as someone to be treated with suspicion.
 

Writing on the Climate Spectator, Mr Wright asked “Who’s the socialist, Maurice Newman?”

 

Mr Wright recently wrote: “Three things Vic Labor should do to kick-start renewable energy construction', in which I argued for the removal of the anti-business, anti-development, 2km exclusion zone around renewable energy facilities. The removal of this policy, when enacted, will get the wheels of business moving again. Newman has, however, represented my view inaccurately, suggesting that I favour the removal of “health safeguards” put in place to protect members of our community.”
 

That observation saw the former Beyond Zero Emissions officer labelled as a “public enemy”.