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Victoria cracks down on inverter standards for rooftop solar scheme
Sophie Vorrath2 Apr 20190 comments

Victorian Labor government introduces new requirement making “smart inverters” mandatory for solar systems installed under its Solar Homes scheme.

Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Ausgrid and Reposit unveil 1MW virtual power plant in NSW
Joshua S Hill29 Mar 20190 comments

Ausgrid and Reposit Power launch pilot 1MW virtual power plant linking the rooftop solar and battery storage of 233 customers across 170 NSW suburbs.

Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets
Personal air conditioning: A low energy option for keeping your cool
Dave Southgate14 Mar 20190 comments

Can portable, personal cooling devices keep you cool in summer? And what are the potential energy/carbon benefits? I tested two quite different personal air conditioners.

Software/Gadgets, Solar, Tariffs
Rooftop solar trading platform cuts out energy market middle man
Sophie Vorrath7 Mar 20190 comments

Rooftop solar trading platform by Energy Locals and Enosi puts consumers in charge of who they sell their excess PV generation to, and for how much, while opening the household solar market to those previously "locked out."

Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets, Solar, Tariffs
Demand response for households – how does it work, and can it really earn you money?
Sophie Vorrath21 Feb 20190 comments

Amber Electric is a power retailer that wants its customers to use more power at cheap times, and less power at expensive times. Sound suspicious? Here's how – and why – it works.

Software/Gadgets, Solar
Virtual power plant snags contract in wholesale capacity auction – a US first
Peter Moloney13 Feb 20190 comments

"Breakthrough moment" in US, as local solar energy resources compete with centralised power in highly price-sensitive wholesale power markets.

Software/Gadgets, Solar
Networks face up to rooftop solar boom, with new ARENA-funded trial
Sophie Vorrath11 Feb 20190 comments

Creating Solar Friendly Neighbourhoods trial in Victoria could significantly enhance ability of electricity networks to accommodate more rooftop solar power.

Electric Vehicles, Software/Gadgets, Solar, Tariffs
My electric car, your solar home, a microgrid, and the future
Elisa Wood13 Dec 20180 comments

US collaboration between LO3 and MotorWerks will test tools to let consumers buy and sell electricity within microgrids using their homes and vehicles.

Battery/Storage, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Monash Uni charges ahead with Australia's biggest behind-the-meter battery system
Sophie Vorrath15 Nov 20180 comments

Monash Uni installs Australia's largest commercial behind-the-meter battery storage system – a 1MWh hybrid system combining vanadium flow and lithium-ion.

Battery/Storage, Other Renewables, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Power to learn: Puerto Rico schools get the microgrid treatment
Elisa Wood8 Nov 20180 comments

RMI and Save the Children to install renewable microgrids in 12 schools in Puerto Rico, ensuring access to education, bolstering the grid, and serving the larger community.

Battery/Storage, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Off-grid school Australia's first to run 100% on solar, battery storage
Sophie Vorrath26 Oct 20180 comments

New-build, off-grid school north of Perth, Western Australia, becomes first in Australia to be powered completely by rooftop solar and battery storage.

Battery/Storage, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Microgrid proposal to help Yackandandah reach 100% renewables
Sophie Vorrath18 Oct 20180 comments

Victorian government backs microgrid in Victoria's north-east that will trial the use of solar, storage and smart controls to manage network security and avoid costly line upgrades.

Battery/Storage, Software/Gadgets, Solar
WA VPP project promises 90% solar self-consumption for cost of "a coffee a day"
Sophie Vorrath15 Oct 20180 comments

Australia's "first" privately funded VPP hopes to sign up 1000 homes and businesses in south-west WA to zero up-front cost deal for solar and battery storage.

Battery/Storage, Other Renewables, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Trial to run Monash University on 100% renewables backed by ARENA
Sophie Vorrath12 Oct 20180 comments

ARENA tips $2.9m into microgrid trial to use a locally designed smart software platform to help run Monash University's Clayton campus entirely on renewables.

Battery/Storage, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Ausgrid hopes community storage can help it engage with consumers
Giles Parkinson11 Oct 20180 comments

Australia's networks have gone from raising the drawbridge to lowering it, inviting new technologies and ideas on to their platform. And sooner or later they are going to be competing for access to the consumer.

Battery/Storage, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Vicinity adds blockchain trial to $75 million solar and storage plans
Sophie Vorrath25 Sep 20180 comments

The retail outlets of ASX listed Vicinity Centres could soon sell solar energy, too, after adding Power Ledger's energy sharing technology to their massive solar and battery storage plans.

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