The Clean Energy Council’s 2019 Solar Design and Installation Awards included shining examples of what this talented industry can do with more than a few modules when imaginations are let off the leash.
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Energy demand response for a two-sided market
The future is micro, nano and perhaps even pico-grids orchestrated to solve energy dilemmas at a local level, writes Shaun Scallan.
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Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to avoid it: Garnaut
If Australia is to realise its immense opportunity in a zero-carbon world, it will need a different policy framework.
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SolarEdge makes a big break for batteries as the rules of PV shift
SolarEdge is hoping will secure it supremacy as a smart-thinking provider of energy-and-storage solutions, co-founder Lior Handelsman tells EcoGeneration.
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Virtual power plants, real pain … how the VPP puzzle has brought on a mild headache
Virtual power plants made up of other people’s batteries sound like a great idea but, gee, they’re a headache to put together. Will they make it to the finish line?
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Trails of trash inevitably will lead to waste-to-energy solutions
A powerful counterpoint to our mounting garbage is the clean energy that can be harnessed from it – once communities understand the wonders of modern technology.
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The eight rules of demand response … the source that ‘ticks all three boxes’ of the energy trilemma
Managing energy at the demand side can tick all the boxes of the energy trilemma, says Enel X managing director Asia and Oceania Jeff Renaud.
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Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: how feed-in tariffs hold the key to energy incumbents’ future
The energy giants are looking down a barrel as households build their own rooftop generation. Research shows their prospects hinge on where they set feed-in tariffs.
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Amber Electric raises $2.5m for rollout of residential wholesale-price energy offer
Amber Electric has raised $2.5m as it prepares to rollout its wholesale-price energy app to residential customers.
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Not all VPPs are created equal
A virtual power plant sounds like an obvious way to utilise the surplus solar energy stored in residential systems with batteries – but only if owners are rewarded fairly. How will they know if that’s the case?
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