Solar

Wodonga wastewater plant goes solar as Photon Energy tapped for $7 million contract

Wastewater treatment plant in north-eastern Victoria to be powered by 3MW ground-mounted solar system after Photon Energy awarded the $A7.2m…

June 3, 2020

Q Cells tips $5m into SwitchDin to tap solar and battery management technology

Newcastle-based SwitchDin secures $5m from global PV giant Q-Cells, which will use the Australian technology to offer vertically integrated distributed…

June 2, 2020

Australia rooftop solar market powers on, despite Covid-19 blip

Covid-19 finally having some impact on Australian rooftop solar market, but May installations were still the third highest month on…

June 1, 2020

Australia’s distributed solar faces blunt options without the right data

To date, there hasn’t been a framework in place to take advantage of solar and/or storage that is ready to…

June 1, 2020

Even with rooftop solar boom, consumers are paying dearly for what lies underneath

Australians have led the world in solar installations on their rooftops, but lag way behind in terms of what they…

June 1, 2020

New solar farm offers bite-size chunks for small business on road to energy democracy

The completion of Robinvale solar farm marks the launch of WePower's blockchain-based energy tokenisation platform that promises to open up…

June 1, 2020

Esperance solar, wind and battery hybrid power hub to be built by Juwi

Juwi Renewables signed up to build solar, wind, and battery hybrid energy “hub” to meet up to half of annual…

May 29, 2020

Solar for strata: LPE teams with Allume to offer “fair access” to solar

Bid to extend solar to Australia’s millions of apartment dwellers gains new ground in partnership between electricity retailer LPE and…

May 28, 2020

Ausgrid seeks thousands of homes to take part in expanded virtual power plant

After a successful phase one, Ausgrid launches second phase of household battery-based virtual power plant, with two new "aggregator" partners…

May 28, 2020

Victoria opens $1 million in new govt grants for community energy

Victorian community energy projects set to receive boost with Victorian government opening up $1 million in funding under the New…

May 21, 2020