microgrid

Social housing tenants enjoy Tasmania’s first community microgrid with solar and Tesla batteries

Tasmania’s first community microgrid, with rooftop solar and Tesla battery storage, is successfully powering a group of social housing tenants…

April 7, 2021

Tackling energy resilience with solar and deeply discounted Tesla batteries

A Californian city has approved plans to install solar-based microgrids at five critical facilities using Tesla batteries paid for by…

March 25, 2021

Microgrid feasibility studies target NSW towns hit hard by bushfires

A south coast NSW group is seeking funding for eight microgrid feasibility studies targeting locations vulnerable to loss of grid…

February 4, 2021

Solar and flow battery microgrid to protect Native American lands plagued by fires

Solar plus storage microgrid being installed at Soboba Band of Luiseño Indian lands, an area threatened by wildfire-related power outages…

December 1, 2020

W.A. mine becomes first to run on solar and battery only during daylight hours

Hybrid Systems-built solar, battery and diesel microgrid proves able to go 'hydrocarbon free' during the day, and run a W.A.…

November 25, 2020

Ground-breaking solar microgrid completed at Granny Smith gold mine

Ground-breaking solar, battery and gas microgrid built to power remote W.A. gold mine is complete and cutting fossil fuel consumption…

October 7, 2020

More microgrids! Google joins push to beat California’s blackout blues

As if to underscore the point, power blackouts rolled across California right after dozens of stakeholders urged state regulators to…

August 20, 2020

Off-grid battery to shift NT Titjikala community to solar only, by day

A 970kWh battery added to existing 400kW solar array expected to take remote Northern Territory Indigenous community almost entirely off…

June 19, 2020

Microgrid feasibility funding awarded to 17 projects in round one of federal scheme

First-round winners of $50.4m Regional and Remote Communities Reliability Fund include microgrids for indigenous communities, farmers, regional towns and industrial…

June 5, 2020

Humble home switchboard transformed for future nanogrid world

San Francisco-developed "smart circuit panel" technology creates a single point of control for generation, energy storage and devices in the…

May 13, 2020