EcoGeneration | The voice for Australia's clean energy industry

31st October, 2019 | Funding, Renewables, Solar, Storage, Wind

PV panel recycling a mountain of worry

7th November, 2019 | For Consumers, For Installers, Solar

There is a mountain of preparation to be done to manage the recycling of millions of tonnes of solar PV modules over the decades ahead, writes GSES.

Best and brightest: CEC Solar Awards winners for 2019

7th November, 2019 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage

The Clean Energy Council’s 2019 Solar Design and Installation Awards included shining examples of what this talented industry can do with more than a few modules when imaginations are let off the leash.

Energy demand response for a two-sided market

7th November, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage

The future is micro, nano and perhaps even pico-grids orchestrated to solve energy dilemmas at a local level, writes Shaun Scallan.

Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to avoid it: Garnaut

6th November, 2019 | Australia, Climate, Comment, For Consumers, Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewables

If Australia is to realise its immense opportunity in a zero-carbon world, it will need a different policy framework.

SolarEdge makes a big break for batteries as the rules of PV shift

31st October, 2019 | Commercial, Company Updates, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage

SolarEdge is hoping will secure it supremacy as a smart-thinking provider of energy-and-storage solutions, co-founder Lior Handelsman tells EcoGeneration.

New Grid Reliability Fund a welcome boost to transmission investment: CEC

31st October, 2019 | Funding, Renewables, Solar, Storage, Wind

A $1 billion top-up for the Clean Energy Finance Corporation can prepare the energy system for the shift from coal to renewable energy.

Overzealous tactics help energy companies maintain a dying status quo

31st October, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, Renewables, Solar

The incumbent energy companies have nothing to gain by standing in the way of renewables, writes Huon Hoogesteger. And yet, that’s exactly what some of them are doing…

An offshore wind heads for Australia

31st October, 2019 | Projects, Renewables, Wind, Wind Projects

Australia’s first offshore wind project a step in the right direction, writes Kashish Shah.

Energy efficiency, the key to unlocking the DER model

21st October, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage

For a network of connected distributed energy resources to work at peak efficiency owners of solar must make the most of their generation, writes Shavaj Kallamkote.

Sunshine after dark – the rise of 24-hour solar

21st October, 2019 | For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar

Solar PV is cleaning up the energy mix, writes Longi president Zhenguo Li, but this is just the beginning…

In case of emergency, put your faith in solar and storage

20th October, 2019 | Electric Vehicles, Renewables, Solar, State Policy, Storage

A new solar system in Diamond Creek, Victoria, will help prepare the Shire of Nillumbik for bushfire season.

Energy-hungry food sector can easily tighten its belt

19th October, 2019 | Efficiency, Policy

There are plenty of ways to cut costs in the food industry, and with energy bills expected to stay high managers need to learn to identify fat from muscle.