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The sunlight that powers solar panels also damages them … but ‘gallium doping’ is providing a solution

2nd August, 2021 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar

ARENA boosts Future Fuels Fund with $24m towards 403 EV charging stations across Australia

30th July, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Renewables

Investment risk in renewables … seeking value in a frothy green market

30th July, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects

Inside a battery’s brain … writing the software that is doctor and cop to large storage assets

4th August, 2021 | Commercial, Demand response, Electric Vehicles, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Storage, VPPs

Batteries that are 100% risk-free have yet to be designed, but the CSIRO is working on it.

FIRE! … the tiny triggers that can send lithium-ion batteries up in flames

3rd August, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Storage

Risk of fire in a lithium-ion battery can begin at the molecular level within a single cell, but there are other contributing causes.

Any interval, any DER, any tariff design … billing software aims for Netflix Vs Blockbuster replay

2nd August, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, PPAs, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs

A software billing service hopes to engage energy retailers who want to entice customers with dynamic, flexible offerings.

The sunlight that powers solar panels also damages them … but ‘gallium doping’ is providing a solution

2nd August, 2021 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar

The process of manufacturing gallium-doped solar panels was under a patent until last year. It’s only now that this method has started to pick up steam.

ARENA boosts Future Fuels Fund with $24m towards 403 EV charging stations across Australia

30th July, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Renewables

Charging stations will be built across eight geographic regions covering 14 of Australia’s most populous cities.

Investment risk in renewables … seeking value in a frothy green market

30th July, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects

Clean energy is growing in the grid but there is still plenty of risk for big investors.

Follow the sun … how tracking stacks up in utility-scale PV

28th July, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, For Installers, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage

Tracking has taken off with developers of solar plants but there is a lot to know about this simple technology.

Things will get worse before they get better … how curtailment and restrictive MLFs will precede the dawn of renewable energy zones

26th July, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, Demand response, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects

Grid constraints are symptoms of an energy system in transition, say analysts. A balancing act of new supply and transmission will see bumps along the way.

Obey your master … how algorithms can steer a neighbourhood battery

23rd July, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs

Research shows that if energy professionals and customers agree on what they expect a community battery to do, engineers can write performance algorithms to suit those objectives.

To the limit … ANU lab open for extreme (or mundane) DER testing

22nd July, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Hydrogen, Ocean Power, PPAs, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs, Waste-to-energy, Wind

Dull or extraordinary grid conditions can be conjured to stress test clean energy equipment at the ANU’s laboratory dedicated to distributed energy resources.

How open energy data can promote sustainability

22nd July, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Renewables, VPPs

To take sustainability targets seriously governments and businesses must access and understand the reams of data that are often freely available to them, writes Paul Leahy.

Autonomous Energy looks for a clean start after mixing with Bill Papas

21st July, 2021 | Commercial, Company Updates, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Interviews, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage

A leading C&I solar company is focused on business as usual having found itself briefly under the ownership of an alleged fraudster.

Light touch … adapting C&I solar for rooftops that can’t take the strain

20th July, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects

Solar installers who try to cut corners by avoiding stringent structural assessments risk the reputation of the entire industry – and can miss out on proving themselves in the tough C&I sector.

Gusts up, prices down … good news and bad about wind’s towering role in Victoria

19th July, 2021 | Pumped hydro, Renewables, Wind

A pocket of stillness has highlighted how wind may have concentrated price power in Victoria as coal is retired.

RACV Solar’s 800kW PV-and-storage upgrade for Holmesglen TAFE

16th July, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage

RACV Solar has partnered with Holmesglen Institute to deliver an energy solution and training facility worthy of turning out tomorrow’s solar workers.