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

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.
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Staff WriterAugust 16, 2021, 4:40 pmAugust 16, 2021

Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Storage, VPPs

AEMC delivers its blueprint for solar, storage and efficient network investment

The AEMC has put the ball in the networks' court as it seeks to free the way for more rooftop solar ... while encouraging battery storage.
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Staff WriterAugust 12, 2021, 4:44 pmAugust 12, 2021

Comment, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs, Wind

How shifting energy consumption behaviour could save the planet

Consumers can score an easy goal against polluting generation by aligning demand for energy with supply from variable renewable sources, writes Steve Hoy.
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Staff WriterAugust 12, 2021, 3:23 pmAugust 12, 2021

Australia, For Consumers, Hydrogen, International, Projects, Renewables, Wind, Wind Projects

Floating wind turbines get their sea legs

Wind technology that can bob about on the waves will open up vast amounts of opportunity, but does it work?
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Staff WriterAugust 11, 2021, 4:20 pmAugust 12, 2021

For Consumers, Funding, Hydrogen, Renewables

Green hydrogen gets ready to hit the road in NSW

Hydrogen produced using clean energy will next year be fuelling heavy vehicles in NSW, following a deal between Jemena and Coregas.
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Staff WriterAugust 9, 2021, 2:58 pmAugust 9, 2021

Australia, Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Storage

FIRE! … the tiny triggers that can send lithium-ion batteries up in flames

Risk of fire in a lithium-ion battery can begin at the molecular level within a single cell, but there are other contributing causes.
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Staff WriterAugust 3, 2021, 3:56 pmAugust 3, 2021

Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, PPAs, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs

Any interval, any DER, any tariff design … billing software aims for Netflix Vs Blockbuster replay

A software billing service hopes to engage energy retailers who want to entice customers with dynamic, flexible offerings.
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Staff WriterAugust 2, 2021, 4:47 pmAugust 2, 2021

Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar

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

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.
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Staff WriterAugust 2, 2021, 11:38 amAugust 2, 2021