One Step Off The Grid
Solar, storage and distributed energy news
The home of the Victorian Greens leader has become the first in the state to install a Tesla Powerwall battery, alongside a 5kW solar system. Barber says solar plus storage is the only way to tackle Victoria’s “perverse” energy markets.
A craft brewery in country Victoria has called for industry-wide renewable energy and sustainability goals, after successfully installing a 50kW solar system that will cover all of the beer maker’s electricity needs.
A community-based effort to shift the regional Victorian town of Yackandandah to 100% renewable energy by 2022 has kicked off with the launch of a 90kW solar array on the town’s health services centre.
AGL Energy has released a new version of its energy management app that includes data on customers’ rooftop solar performance, and “in future” could allow them to trade directly with the grid.
Not all solar and storage systems are created equal. New energy management solutions – targeting the Australian market first – are hitting the market. There’s no point replicating the dumb grid inside your home.
Redflow says zinc bromine flow batteries will be cost-competitive with lithium-ion and lead acid rivals, with more cost reductions to come.
Victorian network operator Powercor signs MOU to help rural town of Newstead shift to 100% renewable energy by 2021.
Australian battery storage company Redflow says a plug and play residential model of its zinc bromine technology will be launched on the Australian market in just over a month.
Australia’s first household to add a Tesla Powerwall battery can this week begin buying and selling electricity on the market, after the addition of a world-leading software program by Canberra company, Reposit Power, effectively turning it into “a mini power station”.
CEFC funding program aims to cut energy consumption of low-income households by 25% – an energy efficiency standard it says should apply to all Australian buildings.
