Hoping desperately that when it does come, that it’s a weak one. Things could get extremely nasty if it isn’t.
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From October 2024 to September 2025, temperatures across the entire Arctic region were the hottest in 125 years of modern record keeping, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said, with the last 10 years being the 10 warmest on record in the Arctic.
The Arctic is heating up as much as four times as quickly as the global average, due to the burning of fossil fuels, and this extra heat is warping the world’s refrigerator – a region that acts as a key climate regulator for the rest of the planet.
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13.5kw solar panels and 25.6kwh battery installed. Goodbye electricity bills.
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Are you connected to the grid?
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Yep
So you still get bills for the privilege of being connected ?
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I would expect the connection costs to go up as people install batteries. Will go the same way as feed in tariffs.
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James Hansen and his team at Columbia have been scarily accurate with their projections (especially the last few years) and their outlook for the next two years isn’t great. But there’s no need to be concerned because by 2050 we are going to be net zero!
Hansen et al:
Global temperature in 2025 declined 0.1°C from its El Nino-spurred maximum in 2024, making 2025 the second warmest year. The 2023-2025 mean is +1.5°C relative to 1880-1920. The 12-month running-mean temperature should decline for the next few months, reaching a minimum about +1.4°C. Later in 2026, we expect the 12-month running-mean temperature to begin to rise, as dynamical models show development of an El Nino. We project a global temperature record of +1.7°C in 2027, which will provide further confirmation of the recent global warming acceleration.
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Yay.
Me too.
Just installed 6.5kw solar panels and 30 kwh battery and I will be using Amber Smart Shift.
We will be connected to the grid shortly. 
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MrHeff said we will use Amber Smart Shift too.
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Why isn’t compulsory for any new house townhouse dwelling being built to have solar.
Government subsidies would mean it wouldn’t add any major cost to a build.
Just seems strange it isn’t a national policy
I am not sure it is still dme, but for a long time builders were installing solar hot water as it was a cheap way to get compliance. Totally useless is solar hot water, just put on the biggest solar system you can and run your hot water from it ( heat pump these days) and you are far better off.
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I’ve been asking that for two decades.
Won’t someone think of the designers’ right to create custom 18-segment rooves?!?
Because the electricity companies don’t want any more rooftop solar generation capacity out there. They can’t handle the amount that’s already being put out.
Once more large-scale storage and better interstate interconnectors come online, it’ll start to have value for them again.
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Yup. Rooftop solar is forcing negative power prices during the middle of the day. That’s clearly not going to be a long term thing, as batteries will suck up that free energy. Just need some time for the storage to be built.
Growing pains that come with any big change.
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New solar installations enable control of solar inverters by network operators to use ESM ( Emergency Solar Management ) to control export of rooftop solar power so as to protect grid integrity. As they control the inverters, they effectively control the battery as well.
Fair enough. We do not want the grid to collapse in a steaming pile of frequency and voltage chaos.
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