Off-Grid
Redflow zinc-bromine flow batteries paired with solar take Tambourine Mountain home – and electric vehicle – off-grid and 100% renewable-powered.
Households
SAPN, the distribution network service provider with the highest concentration of rooftop solar on the National Electricity Market, backs consumer-group led push to support increased and equitable distributed solar uptake.
Off-Grid
Don Pattison lost his house and just about everything in it during the horrific fire season of 2019/20. But this is not a story of loss and grief. Rather, the destruction has set the context for the journey back.
Households
US start-up Orison, backed by Origin Energy, hopes to unveil its “plug and play” battery storage that it describes as just another appliance that can be plugged into the wall.
Communities
Report on W.A. trial using Power Ledger blockchain technology finds peer-to-peer solar energy trading technically feasible, good for grid and consumers – but unlikely to take off under current network tariff structures.
Communities
A new software platform that will allow consumers to choose the provenance of their renewable electricity supply, and help establish clean energy communities, is set to be rolled out in Australia.
Communities
Independent MP Helen Haines leading regional groups arguing that community energy – including wind, solar and battery storage – should form major plank of Covid-19 recovery plans.
Households
Australians have led the world in solar installations on their rooftops, but lag way behind in terms of what they do under the roof. And it’s costing them dearly.
Households
After a successful phase one, Ausgrid launches second phase of household battery-based virtual power plant, with two new “aggregator” partners – ShineHub and Evergen.
Businesses
Epho Commercial Solar’s 1.7MW “urban solar plant” built to demonstrate the “tens of gigawatts” of potential for solar power generation on Australia’s industrial rooftops, has been completed and commissioned in Sydney’s west.
One of Australia’s largest behind-the-meter solar installations nears completion at Melbourne Airport, which is set to cut costs and carbon emissions.
A north Queensland solar project that has the blessing of the Pope will addd just under 8MWh of Tesla battery storage, and help take the Townsville Diocese fossil free.
Senec Australia MD says consumer interest in home battery uptake has increased during Coronavirus, as people become more aware of the benefits of solar storage.
ACT government extends free energy advice program to renters in bid to cut power costs for more people working from home due to Covid-19.
