The unprecedented blackout halted trains,cut phone services and shut down traffic lights and ATMs for millions of people across the Iberian Peninsula.
Similar to mains power you can take with you,and able to be topped up by solar,battery stations are a new option when it comes to camping power or household back-up.
New tax and housing policies are latecomers to the campaign agenda that will dominate debate. Medicare and a nuclear energy fight are also in the conversation.
The Albanese government has made an election pitch to slash power bills and accelerate the grid’s shift to cleaner sources of energy.
The prime minister is doubling down on his clean energy ambitions in response to criticisms of soaring power bills.
Households are set to gain federal help to cut their energy bills under a government plan to make it easier for them to buy home batteries.
With power prices set to rise by as much as $200 a year,the Albanese government’s latest cost-of-living pledge comes as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton seeks to remind voters that Labor has failed to bring prices down.
Teal independent Sophie Scamps wants financial support to underwrite the cost of household batteries - and both major parties are working on it.
Australians have been misled about power prices for years – and the fake claims will get worse now the election campaign is so close.
The spectre of power prices jumping in July will loom over the federal election campaign widely expected to begin within weeks.