One Step Off The Grid
Solar, storage and distributed energy news
Newcastle-based SwitchDin secures $5m from global PV giant Q-Cells, which will use the Australian technology to offer vertically integrated distributed renewable solutions.
To date, there hasn’t been a framework in place to take advantage of solar and/or storage that is ready to play a more sophisticated part in the grid’s operation.
ARENA-backed trial will explore the role of customer-owned distributed energy resources on the electricity network, and how they could be used to everyone’s benefit.
AEMC unveils blueprint for “future energy grid” embracing rooftop solar, household batteries and electric vehicles, although its call for urgency rankles with those that see the rule-maker as a stumbling block in the past.
Getting your strata committee to agree to solar panels is tricky, but it can be done.
Hurricane Matthew made a blunt case for microgrids last week as it toppled thousands of electric poles and wires across four American states.
GreenSync to deliver landmark community-based demand response, energy storage project for United Energy to defer need for network upgrades on Mornington Peninsula.
WA power utility Horizon is leading a big switch from centralised fossil fuel generation to local generation. The economics of past supply models are no longer competitive with current and future technology choices.
Victorian network operator Powercor signs MOU to help rural town of Newstead shift to 100% renewable energy by 2021.
Microgrids will be a huge part of the world’s future energy landscape, so we take a look at two different versions of the technology paving the way in Australia.
