Efficiency | EcoGeneration

Future focused: how will the energy developments of today impact the future our children inherit?

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 11, 2020 | Comment, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Renewables, State Policy | 0 |

The energy choices we make over the next few decades will shape the future, writes Christopher Dean.

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.

Australia has failed miserably on energy efficiency – and government figures hide the truth

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 25, 2020 | Efficiency, Funding, Policy, Renewables | 0 |

Better energy efficiency lowers electricity bills, manages energy demand and helps the climate. Unfortunately, Australia is going nowhere on this cheap, simple measure, writes Hugh Saddler.

How to run your AC rig … the cool software solution that can cut demand charges

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 3, 2020 | Efficiency, For Consumers, Renewables | 0 |

Melbourne company Exergenics is marketing a new service to businesses that targets savings in energy-hungry air-conditioning.

Energy efficiency upgrades a covid-19 recovery opportunity

by EcoGen Editor | May 14, 2020 | Efficiency, Policy | 0 |

Energy savings scheme obligations are the perfect complement to covid-19 recovery stimulus to improve infrastructure and economic resilience for the longer term, writes Rod Woolley.

Covid-19 stimulus a golden chance to boost energy efficiency: ESIA

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 14, 2020 | Efficiency, Funding | 0 |

The government should seize the opportunity to support energy efficiency upgrades as part of its covid-19 stimulus package, the ESIA says.

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.

What the energy world needs now is data data data: ISF

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 26, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Researchers and business owners eager to cut energy waste are flummoxed by a paucity of decent data, writes Joe Wyndham. Without it, what hope is there for fixing the world’s problems?

Tomorrow’s brewers to tap the hydrogen they pour down the drain today

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 23, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, Hydrogen, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

An electrolyser that can separate hydrogen from wastewater could signal a new injection of clean energy for industrial applications.

Demand response in a distributed, decentralised, decarbonised and digitalised NEM: much more than “negawatts”

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 16, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, Policy, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

Consumers big and small stand to gain as the full market power of energy demand response is unleashed, writes Alan Rai of the AEMC.

AEMC moves on demand response ruling ahead of an October start date

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 12, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, Policy, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

Participants in the new demand response market created by the rule change will have similar obligations to large-scale energy generators.

Demand-side supports the grid during bushfire emergency

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 21, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

In Australia’s current climate of extreme weather and bushfires, businesses participating in demand response are playing an important role in maintaining system security and stability, write Rando Yam and Zac Hardie of Enel X.