Enova Community Energy expands to cover all of NSW

The chair of Enova Energy, Alison Crook, talks about “our vision”.

Enova Energy wants to make communities as sustainable as possible.

“We want to ensure the everyone can share in the shift to renewables and share in the benefits”, Ms Crook said.

Listen to the story from The Science Show on the ABC  - “Enova Community Energy expands to cover all of NSW.”

Coming soon: the Amazon of energy

What platforms like Amazon, WhatsApp, Spotify and Facebook have taught us over the last few years is that size matters. Once such a business reaches a certain scale, it produces customer benefits that cannot be matched by smaller platforms. This is often described as “network effects”.

These businesses then have almost monopoly power. Their access to huge amounts of data about their customers and their value chain enables them to continuously improve the user experience and/or extract more revenue from those users which, in turn, increases their market penetration and competitive advantage.

To date, we have not seen any platform businesses in energy, but my view is that we will see them soon. All that is needed is two things: a trusted customer-facing platform and a back-office platform that combines the purchasing and trading of energy together with the management of customer demand.

Read the EnergyPost story - “Coming soon: the Amazon of energy.”

China's infrastructure bank can fix climate change - depending!

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an China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) fix climate change?

Yes. If it funds infrastructure encouraging common standards, integrated markets and deeper energy network interconnection.

China’s partners in the bank need to push this, hard. If they do, the benefits to both Asia and the world will be enormous.

The EurasiaReview story - “Can China’s Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) fix climatechange?” – says, “To date, AIIB analysis has focused upon short-sighted, geopolitical handicapping of the power balance between China and the United States. This misses the far larger story: the AIIB’s ability to alter 21st Century history through constructive, badly-needed energy market reform.”

Climate change solutions bathed in benefits

Advocates for action on climate change see the solutions as being bathed in benefits.

Most everything proposed by those same advocates is about improving life for all and within and beyond that, protecting conditions that ensure earth is habitable for humans.

The Huffington Post says: “Even though the world's population is set to rise to 10 billion by 2050 from 7 billion today, the tool shows it is possible for everyone to eat well, travel further and live in more comfortable homes, without pushing global temperature rise above 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change said.”

The story headed: “The World Can Live Better And Fight Climate Change, UK Report Says” argues carbon dioxide emissions can be reduced and living conditions for all improved.