Off-Grid

Western Australia utility Horizon Power to take a second shot at running the Pilbara town of Onslow on solar and battery storage only during daylight hours.

Tesla will build a community microgrid in the San Francisco Bay Area as part of an unusual penalty for air quality infringements at its Fremont EV manufacturing facility.

Works have begun on what will become Australia’s first community microgrid to incorporate renewable hydrogen, a $9.3 million project in the remote WA town of Denham.

Survey finds solar households overwhelmingly oppose the AEMC's proposed rooftop solar tax, but how many would rather quit the grid than pay to export their power?

Queensland utility calls for expressions of interest for renewable energy solutions for two diesel fuel-dependent remote communities.

Sunport Power installs Japanese off-grid solar project using the company’s metal wrap through (MWT) technology, which boasts flexibility and greater solar efficiency.

A 13MW solar farm that will combine with battery storage and gas to power a gold mine in Western Australia is expected to be up and running by the end of this year.

NT government to establish competitive tender process to transition scores of remote indigenous communities to renewable-based power systems by 2030.

In the Central African country of Cameroon, where electricity is scarce outside of major cities, a public-private partnership has a set goal of installing 750 minigrids.

A Californian city has approved plans to install solar-based microgrids at five critical facilities using Tesla batteries paid for by a state-backed energy resilience scheme.

ASX-listed miner Strandline Resources has signed a 15-year supply agreement with Contract Power, a move that will see it pay less for power than originally forecast.

Microgrids and supporting technologies offer the potential to make grid failures like what happened in Texas a thing of the past.

Fourteen companies join forces to decarbonise Australian mining industry and to help it harness the benefits of renewables, storage and electric vehicles.

Donald and Tarnagulla, west of Bendigo, could be the first large communities that are taken off grid and powered by local renewables and storage.

The town of Heyfield 200km east of Melbourne will be the guinea pig for new microgrid technology in a study led by UTS.