Molycop Australia inks solar and wind PPA with Flow Power, to cover more than half its NSW electricity needs with renewables, and tap into the demand response market.
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Adelaide leads again, with rebates for shared solar, V2G, demand response
Adelaide City – first out of the blocks to incentivise the uptake of home battery storage – is set to lead again, with a range of new rebates targeting shared solar, electric vehicle-to-grid technologies, and residential and commercial demand response.
Demand response for households – how does it work, and can it really earn you money?
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.
How business can keep energy costs below 10c/kWh
New report shows taking part in demand response activities could save businesses up to 33 per cent on their power costs – and for very little effort. Used alongside the wholesale purchase of power and a corporate renewable PPA, the benefits to business can be substantial.
NSW smart pool pilot wins $2.5m ARENA grant
ARENA backs NSW start-up pilot to pool Australia’s backyard pools: slashing their share of household energy consumption and making them work for the grid.
Canberra switches on its own Big Battery – 1MW of household variety demand response
One day before the world’s largest lithium-ion array is formally “switched on” by Tesla in SA, Reposit Power and ActewAGL have flicked the switch on Canberra’s own big battery – of the virtual variety: 1MW of home battery systems that will not only help balance the grid – starting this afternoon – but deliver savings to consumers at nine times the solar FiT.
Tariff reform could save billions on grid costs, slash customer bills
Energeia report finds that an enlightened Australian electricity market, built around demand-based network tariffs, could save as much as $16bn in avoided infrastructure costs and cut power bills by 30%.
Solar, storage and remote controlled air-con: How communities can fix the grid
For the first time, a traditional network company is leveraging non-network solutions to fix an age-old grid problem that used to mean only one thing: more poles and wires.
Australian demand response trial delivers 30% peak load reduction
A demand-response trial conducted by Australian utility United Energy achieved a 30% reduction in peak load electricity consumption.