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From SWER lines to solar and batteries: Network offers to take regional customers off grid
Amalyah Hart6 Mar 20250 comments

Network company offers to switch 17 edge-of-grid customers to a mix of solar, batteries and back-up generation – and eventually retire their powerlines permanently.

Battery/Storage, Off-Grid
Sungrow installs battery at Australia’s biggest off-grid hybrid renewables system
Joshua S Hill27 Nov 20240 comments

Sungrow says it has supplied the 17MW/19MWh battery energy storage system for Australia’s largest off-grid renewable power system at a lithium mine in remote WA.

Off-Grid, Solar
Off-grid solar is cheapest and most reliable way to option for those without power
Hamish Beath25 Sep 20240 comments

Off-grid solar systems can be more reliable than national grid networks. A new study explores different scenarios in 43 countries where this could be the case.

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Battery/Storage, Off-Grid, Other Renewables, Solar
Wind turbine parts arrive at “Australia’s largest” off-grid hybrid renewables power system
Sophie Vorrath14 Aug 20240 comments

First milestones marked in the delivery of a massive wind, solar and battery-based microgrid that will slash the fossil fuel use of a WA gold mine by up to 96%.

Battery/Storage, Featured, Off-Grid, Solar
Clucking good power: Australia’s largest off-grid chicken farm runs on solar and batteries
Sophie Vorrath23 Jul 20240 comments

Australia’s largest off-grid chicken farm – and one of biggest off-grid farms of any kind – is being powered completely by on-site solar and battery storage.

Battery/Storage, Off-Grid
Here’s how ‘microgrids’ are empowering regional and remote communities across Australia
The Conversation4 Jul 20240 comments

Sometimes owned by local communities, renewable energy microgrids are slowly replacing dirty diesel generators.

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Battery/Storage, Off-Grid, Solar
“Resilient” renewable microgrid to power bushfire-threatened town for up to five days
Sophie Vorrath27 Jun 20240 comments

Work starts on solar and battery based microgrid to help power one of the Victorian towns hardest hit by the 2019-2020 Black Summer of bushfires.

Battery/Storage, Featured, Off-Grid, Solar
Networks embrace stand-alone power as solar and batteries beat out poles and wires
Rachel Williamson27 Mar 20240 comments

Two completely off-grid solar, battery and diesel generator systems have gone live in New South Wales, owned and operated by a network company. Is this the new norm?

Battery/Storage, Off-Grid, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Network sizes up three country towns for “stand alone” microgrids to boost resilience
Sophie Vorrath19 Mar 20240 comments

Three regional towns are being considered for battery backed stand-alone microgrids that would "island" the communities in the event of a major power outage.

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Battery/Storage, Off-Grid, Solar
Off-grid solar and battery microgrid specialist moves HQ to NT
Joshua S Hill29 Feb 20240 comments

GenOffGrid to move headquarters from WA to Darwin's East Arm and expand its business with the support of a NT government concessional loan.

Battery/Storage, Off-Grid, Policy, Solar
“Power to the people:” Traditional owners’ clean energy plea gains climate urgency
Rudi Maxwell19 Feb 20240 comments

Indigenous people are presenting their case for inclusion in clean energy projects, like traditional owners from the flood-ravaged community of Wujal Wujal.

Battery/Storage, Off-Grid, Solar
“First-of-a-kind” solar and battery microgrid to power coal-country town through grid outages
Sophie Vorrath5 Feb 20240 comments

Ausgrid starts work on solar and battery microgrid to ensure power supply to key business and community services in Upper Hunter town of Merriwa during grid outages.

Battery/Storage, Electrification, Off-Grid
Beach towns get state’s first microgrid to deal with blackout, tourist threat
Rachel Williamson11 Dec 20230 comments

Endeavour Energy launches its first renewable microgrid, a system it hopes will protect the townships from bushfires - and tourist-induced blackouts. 

Battery/Storage, Off-Grid, Solar
Solar and battery system takes remote Aboriginal community to 83 pct renewables
Joshua S Hill15 Nov 20230 comments

A remote Indigenous community was powered by 100% renewables for an average of 20 hours a day during September, using solar and battery storage.

Battery/Storage, Off-Grid, Other Renewables
Farmers are famously self-reliant. Why not use farm dams as mini-hydro plants?
Nicholas Gilmore, Martino Malerba & Thomas Britz7 Sep 20230 comments

For farmers seeking more independence from the grid, the water in their dams could offer yet another form of energy self-reliance.

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Battery/Storage, Off-Grid, Solar
Solar and batteries installed for “first-of-a-kind” disaster-proof microgrid
Sophie Vorrath1 Aug 20230 comments

Network company completes first phase of "first-of-a-kind" community microgrid designed to power two coastal communities during grid outages.

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