Tag: battery storage

Fixed charges to households surge, and may cost small business two-thirds of bill, as government-owned utilities move against solar, efficiency....

Energy market operator says rooftop solar will grow to the point where there is zero demand from the grid in South Australia during midday hours, and could provide one third of all generation throughout the year. Little wonder the state is...

Energy Made Clean wins tender for 1.1MWh battery system for ground-breaking large-scale community energy storage trial in Western Australia....

New housing estates in Australia may be built without a connection to the main grid, offering instead free electricity – and even free electric vehicles – to residents. Meanwhile, numerous towns are looking to buy back their grid from networks. Welcome...

Panasonic targets Australia as first global market for battery storage, in deal with 3 utilities to trial 8kWh system. It says storage will double self consumption of solar households, but it intends to sell product through networks and retailers, challenging their...

AGL sees no mass market for battery storage before 2020, and is not sure Tesla product is suitable for Australia. It concedes it is behind in rooftop solar, but argues this is just one of basket of new technologies that will...

How quickly will households adopt battery storage, and will they be able to use Tesla to get off the grid?...

Five graphs that show why battery storage will appeal to Australian households, and will damage the bottom line of Australian utilities....

Just as important as how cheap batteries are getting is another crucial question: how much battery do you need?...

Sydney storm has made us realise how much we rely on electricity for so many things and how much we take it for granted....