Perth company applies P2P platform to Fremantle apartment complex with solar and battery storage to offer residents "transactive layer" to trade their own energy.
Power Ledger extends P2P solar sharing to WA apartment complex
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Show me the money: The business opportunity of grid-interactive buildings
Building owners should care about grid integration services because such services save them money, and can provide new sources of revenue.
Fridge chewing more power than it should? Ask your smart meter
Is your TV running? Not the opening line of a joke, but serious question smart meter giant Landis+Gyr wants to be able to answer for customers – before they even ask.
My long switch to solar
After many years of planning, I finally flicked the switch and installed a rooftop solar energy system. But that is just the beginning of our household's journey away from fossil fuels.
Port Macquarie Base Hospital to install 609kW rooftop solar system
NSW hospital set to save $130,000 a year with the installation of a 609kW rooftop solar system – "Australia's largest" on a health care facility, yet, it claims.
Power companies less trusted by consumers than banks, telcos
Survey finds Australian consumers' lack of trust in power companies holding back the shift to a smarter, cheaper grid.
Melbourne apartment complex switches on shared solar system
One solar system, five apartments, a baker, a hair salon, and an occupational therapist. Allume Energy has switched on its first suburban shared solar system that allows PV electricity to be distributed and billed to individual tenants, for 30% less than grid costs.
One down, five to go: Cook Islands begins shift to 100% solar and storage
Melbourne company Entura leads project to take six of Cook Islands' 12 inhabited islands from diesel to 100% solar and battery storage.
Victoria "Community Grid" grows, in bid to cut network costs by $30m
Victorian Community Grid Project that promises to save United Energy $30m in avoided network costs adds key new solar and storage system to collection.
Townsville resort bets on solar, efficiency to cut grid power by 70%
A luxury resort in Townsville in Queensland’s north is looking to cut its grid power consumption by up to 70 per cent, through a suite of cutting edge renewable energy and energy efficiency upgrades.
Looking for energy independence? Make your solar smarter
As rooftop solar uptake increases, and the cost of batteries decreases, integrating smart management and storage can boost energy independence dramatically.
Image of the Day: Have Tesla Powerpack – "who needs Ergon?"
North Queensland business going off-grid with rooftop PV and a Tesla Powerpack battery system proudly proclaims: Who needs the network?
Off-grid, in business: Is this a "new norm" for Australian SMEs?
Queensland business - with 100 employees - has taken its operations off-grid, and may be the first to do so using Tesla Powerpack batteries in Australia. Does it make sense? And how many other businesses will follow?
Rental solar scheme targets 15,000 Queensland investment homes
Queensland property groups join forces to install solar and smart technology on 15,000 investment properties across the state, offering bill crunching PV to landlords and renters.
Smart solar monitoring: Why you should have it
Is your solar performing? Rooftop PV systems can be adversely affected by things outside of a household's control – and without their knowledge. But you needn't be in the dark about it.
Sonnen lands biggest battery order in Australia with housing developer
Sonnen selected to provide 270 residential batteries for Melbourne property development, to cut household power bills by 60% and possibly help power a community water recycling plant.
