Efficiency | EcoGeneration

Electric shock or powerful awakening … CEC webinar on Australia’s energy future

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 8, 2021 | Comment, Commercial, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Hydrogen, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs, Wind | 0 |

Australia stands to benefit in so many ways from the energy transition, according to a panel discussion during a webinar hosted by the Clean Energy Council.

What the Watt? A deep dive into standard test condition power measurements

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 1, 2021 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

It pays to know a little about standard test condition power measurements – the “other” STCs – to understand the quality of the panels you purchase, writes Michelle McCann.

Cling to power … Melbourne networks opt for ‘least-cost’ community batteries option to free up solar

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 26, 2021 | Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

The United Energy and Powercor networks are adding storage based on success of a trial of two pole-mounted batteries.

In the here and now: campaigning for clean energy change

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 24, 2021 | Comment, Efficiency, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind Projects | 0 |

The Clean Energy Council’s new national campaign is looking to tip the balance once and for all in favour of renewable energy, writes Clean Energy Council chief executive Kane Thornton.

The end of the beginning … the Energy Security Board’s Physical Retailer Reliability Obligation and the long road to tomorrow’s grid

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 23, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Transmission, VPPs, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The Energy Security Board’s Physical Retailer Reliability Obligation and the long road to tomorrow’s grid.

Get it right this time … testing and rigour will help us build the renewable energy grid we need

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 16, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, PPAs, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Transmission, VPPs, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The complex make-up of our energy grid is holding back its full potential, writes Mark Andrews. Only an earnest approach to risk mitigation and testing will ensure success of a new, clean NEM.

How shifting energy consumption behaviour could save the planet

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 12, 2021 | Comment, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs, Wind | 0 |

Consumers can score an easy goal against polluting generation by aligning demand for energy with supply from variable renewable sources, writes Steve Hoy.

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

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 4, 2021 | Commercial, Demand response, Electric Vehicles, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

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

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

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 2, 2021 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar | 0 |

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.

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

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 26, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, Demand response, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

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.