Comment | EcoGeneration

CEC calls for covid-19 stimulus to include renewables

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 27, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Efficiency, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The Clean Energy Council has called for federal and state responses to the covid-19 virus to support the continued rollout of rooftop solar and storage.

Peeking out from behind the meter

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 18, 2020 | Comment, Commercial, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The potential in connected microgrids of distributed energy resources can’t be overlooked much longer, writes Shaun Scallan.

A global need for better batteries: Calix

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 6, 2020 | Comment, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The adoption of new processes and exploitation of low-cost precursors will be essential in the effort to improve the sustainability of battery technologies.

Breaking Australia’s vicious energy cycle

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 5, 2020 | Australia, Comment, For Consumers, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar Projects, Wind Projects | 0 |

A lack of long-term planning to create a 21st century grid and decades of political infighting are beginning to catch up with us, writes Clean Energy Council chief executive Kane Thornton.

Why the slowdown in corporate PPAs?

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 28, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Funding, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

All of the bumps and hiccups that accompany the integration of large amounts of renewable energy into the grid have caused PPA buyers to pause for breath.

Sunny forecast for renewables as new decade dawns

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 14, 2020 | Comment, Funding, Policy, Renewables | 0 |

The 2010s saw the renewable energy industry come of age, but the next decade promises to be even better, writes Clean Energy Council chief executive Kane Thornton.

Doing the megawatt foxtrot … Australia’s top C&I solar companies look back on 2019

by EcoGen Editor | Dec 16, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Interviews, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

Very big solar systems come with many more challenges than the residential variety, and business in the commercial and industrial PV world is competitive. Australia’s two largest C&I solar companies take EcoGeneration through the ins and outs.

‘My 20 years in renewables’ … reflections on the clean energy boom

by EcoGen Editor | Dec 16, 2019 | Australia, Comment, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Wind | 0 |

The clean energy sector is moving so fast it’s easy to forget how far we’ve come. Lacour Energy director Mark Rayner looks back at the past two decades in wonder.