Comment | EcoGeneration

After 20 years, the national electricity market is on its way out … and that’s alright

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 7, 2021 | Australia, Comment, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, State Policy, Storage, Wind | 0 |

The grid is in a state of flux as customers are able to choose who they buy electricity from and are able to make some of it themselves if they want to.

Scale, consolidate or stay niche … the tough choices for C&I solar

by EcoGen Editor | Dec 29, 2020 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Commercial and industrial solar companies may be overlooking an obvious route to higher profits, writes Danin Kahn.

An efficient NEM is ‘possible’ but still a way off: Capgemini

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 28, 2020 | Australia, Comment, For Consumers, Funding, Hydrogen, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, VPPs, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Capgemini’s annual overview of global energy markets included a significant section on Australia this year. EcoGeneration speaks to authors Anastasia Klingberg and Jan Lindhaus about how we are tracking.

Renewables a shining light in a challenging year

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 25, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The renewable energy industry has shown remarkable resilience in a difficult year, writes Clean Energy Council chief executive Kane Thornton.

ARENA’s Darren Miller on how to build a risk-filled renewables portfolio … ‘none of our investments are duds – even the ones that fail’

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 18, 2020 | Australia, Bioenergy, Comment, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Hydrogen, Interviews, Ocean Power, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, VPPs, Waste-to-energy, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

As head of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, Darren Miller is pushing the technologies that will support and deliver tomorrow’s clean energy grid.

Towards a two-sided market … the role for demand response in tomorrow’s grid: expert panel

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 13, 2020 | Comment, Efficiency, For Consumers, PPAs, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The Energy Security Board has highlighted industrial load flexibility as an important potential contributor to grid stability. Is it a target we can hit? EcoGeneration asks a panel of experts to light the way forward.

Solar remote-control a sign of maturity: SwitchDin

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 29, 2020 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

Solar is so popular and powerful that owners will have to accept some give-and-take, says SwitchDin CEO Andrew Mears, as South Australia moves to manage grid stability with its Smarter Homes Program.

Technology Investment Roadmap leaves renewables at the side of the road: CEC

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 23, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Renewables | 0 |

The Coalition’s technology investment roadmap has overlooked solutions to the clean energy transition that are begging for attention, including transmission and offshore wind, says the CEC.

Why behind-the-meter will define Australia’s next solar boom

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 19, 2020 | Comment, Commercial, PPAs, Renewables, Solar, Solar | 0 |

Business owners and investors can take the economic recovery into their own hands, and reap tidy returns, by backing behind-the-meter energy solutions that include solar.

‘A dose of reality’: Coalition’s $1.9 billion techno-fix for climate change is a small step

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 17, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Efficiency, For Consumers, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind Projects | 0 |

ARENA has been handed a 10-year lifeline as the energy transition gets serious, but the money comes with strings attached.

Covid-19 a sign of things to come if we fail on climate

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 7, 2020 | Australia, Climate, Comment, Emissions Reduction Fund, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar Projects, State Policy, Wind Projects | 0 |

While the impacts of covid-19 have been devastating, they will be immaterial compared to climate change unless we take meaningful action, writes Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton.