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Is AEMO’s 2020 Integrated System Plan up to the job?

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 5, 2020 | Australia, Bioenergy, Comment, Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Waste-to-energy, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

What do you think of AEMO’s 2020 Integrated System Plan? Here’s what EcoGeneration’s energy antenna has picked up so far from its network of experts in solar, storage, academia, government and data-crunching.

Remember that you’re a sparky first when it comes to solar standards

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 12, 2020 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

While solar is governed by its own set of standards, installers must ensure they comply with all the relevant electrical standards, particularly AS/NZS3000:2018, writes Thomas Seymour.

How to buy a very, very large batch of solar panels

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 11, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

Dr Michelle McCann takes a deep(ish) dive into module procurement and quality assurance, from specification through to monitoring on the farm.

Dynamics of a truly connected energy market

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 6, 2020 | Comment, Policy, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

A sophisticated market for distributed energy has the power to strengthen the NEM and enable more renewables, writes Dor Son Tan of Energy Networks Australia.

Canberra, let renewables power this recovery

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 6, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar Projects, State Policy, Wind Projects | 0 |

The renewable energy industry could employ thousands more Australians over the next decade, but only if we take meaningful action now, writes Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton.

Miners turn to face the sun

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 2, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind | 0 |

As the cost of clean energy hybrid power plants falls miners around the world are shaking off their reliance on fossil fuels, writes Sarah Wang.

Energy giants want to thwart reforms that would help renewables and lower power bills

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 26, 2020 | Comment, Efficiency, For Consumers, Policy, Renewables, Solar, Storage, Wind | 0 |

Reforms to Australia’s electricity market are too important to be delayed, writes Dan Cass.

Renewables to drive a clean recovery from covid-19

by EcoGen Editor | May 11, 2020 | Australia, Comment, For Consumers, Policy, Projects, Renewables | 0 |

While covid-19 will cause a lot of short-term pain, it presents us with a unique opportunity to accelerate the clean energy transition, writes Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton.

Why it doesn’t make economic sense to ignore climate change in our recovery from the pandemic

by EcoGen Editor | May 11, 2020 | Australia, Comment, For Consumers, Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewables | 0 |

We stand at a crossroads. If government stimulus packages around the world favour carbon-intensive practices and miss the moment to modernise and decarbonise, we will lock ourselves into a warming future.

Nectr’s Hannah Heath wins CEC Women in Renewables Australian Institute of Company Director’s scholarship

by EcoGen Editor | May 6, 2020 | Company Updates, Interviews, Renewables | 0 |

Meet the mentor with a passion for diversity in energy and who admits she learns as much from mentees as she imparts to them.

Pressure builds on lithium-ion

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 30, 2020 | Comment, Renewables, Storage | 0 |

Lithium-ion storage technology is mature and safe – but things will always go wrong when production is running at full tilt and standards slip, writes Geoff Edwards.

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.