Tasmania’s first community microgrid, with rooftop solar and Tesla battery storage, is successfully powering a group of social housing tenants at the edge of the state’s grid.
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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 a state-backed energy resilience scheme.
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 power.
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 in California.
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. clay mine on solar only.
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 by up to 13%.
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 push harder to get more microgrids built.
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 its diesel power supply.
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 parks.
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 home.