In neat illustration of the clean energy transition, a Victorian NGO has won state government funding to power a historic coal mine site with solar and battery storage.
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WA garnet miner to build 3MW solar, wind, battery storage plant
GMA Garnet in WA becomes latest Australian big energy user to turn to renewables and battery storage for a cheaper, more reliable power supply.
NT vanadium mine to tap solar + redox battery storage for energy supply
Northern Territory mine to tap solar power plus vanadium redox battery storage for energy supplies, the latest miner to turn to renewables.
How one state is flipping the sun tax and offering to pay households to dial down solar

A groundbreaking retail electricity trial is offering to pay customers to curtail their rooftop solar exports when prices are negative.
Is your home battery spilling power? The hidden cost of inefficient energy storage

Research shows a big range between the most and least efficient household battery storage systems. Here’s why this could be a big problem.
Will the year of the Snake be the year of the domestic battery?

Production is rising, there are several good home battery products on the market and competition between suppliers is growing. But cost is not the only factor.
With just $500 of rooftop solar modules, you could charge your EVs for 20 years

Four good quality solar panels – costing around $500 – would produce enough power for an EV for 20 years. Low cost solar is an incredible opportunity we should not ignore.
Sungrow installs battery at Australia’s biggest off-grid hybrid renewables system

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.
Electric lawn mowers and solar panels could be “gateways” to home electrification

US survey finds fhe best way to get people to electrify everything might be getting them to electrify something — anything at all.
“A better way to live:” Indigenous-owned solar microgrid lights way for energy democracy

Locked out of rooftop solar and locked in to a prepaid electricity supply, a remote Indigenous community in the NT has taken the power back with a trail-blazing solar and battery microgrid.