Funding | EcoGeneration

Victoria’s energy efficiency booster shot is an example to follow

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 19, 2020 | Efficiency, For Consumers, Funding, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The Victorian government has unleashed close to $800 million in funding to show it is serious about energy efficiency at all levels.

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.

Greenbacks for greenery … venture capital hears the call for clean energy

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 17, 2020 | Australia, Climate, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, International, International, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, VPPs, Waste-to-energy, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Climate-conscious venture capitalists are once again placing big bets on clean technology. Can they make money and protect the planet?

NSW paves the way with $32bn roadmap to 12GW generation, 3GW storage by 2030

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 10, 2020 | Australia, Funding, PPAs, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The NSW government has provided the incentive developers of wind and solar, and especially pumped hydro, were waiting for.

Crowd-power invited to fund army of sub-2MW PV plants

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 28, 2020 | Australia, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

Komo Energy is looking to fund up to a hundred 500kW-2MW stand-alone solar farms supplying into the grid by offering shares to the public.

Early movers target 400MW behind-the-meter VPP, cite risk in front-of-meter storage value

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 23, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Funding, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

As the storage market evolves owners of behind-the-meter assets will have greater flexibility to profit than on-grid facilities, says UK entrant.

Replace coal and gas exports with clean energy? It can be done … if the grid is 2,000% renewables: All-Energy

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 8, 2020 | Australia, Climate, For Consumers, Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

It may be possible, if the technology is affordable and agreements are in place, to switch from dirty energy exports to clean ones … if Australia generates more than 20 times the electricity it does today.

Batteries make sense today based on tomorrow’s energy economics: Evergen

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 7, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Having signed a deal to enable hydrogen battery storage, the Australian energy-technology company is moving fast on multiple VPP projects and more.

Perovskite solar research wins $2.5m ARENA backing

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 2, 2020 | Funding, Renewables, Solar, Solar | 0 |

Support for the University of Sydney research is part of a $15 million round of funding into solar by ARENA.

Locked-out from PV? How about a plot in a 1MW community solar garden

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 30, 2020 | Australia, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

The notion of tapping those who can’t own PV to fund community clean energy projects is being tested in NSW’s sunny Riverina region.

‘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.

All-Energy 2020 to go ahead as six-week virtual conference

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 8, 2020 | Efficiency, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

The country’s biggest energy conference is going ahead as a weeks-long schedule of online events that will call on more than 50 experts speaking in more than 20 sessions.