Policy | EcoGeneration

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.

Victoria to add 300MW Tesla battery

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 6, 2020 | Australia, Policy, Projects, Renewables, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

Victoria has taken energy matters into its own hands and approved a 300MW battery, to ease the way for generation from wind and solar projects into the grid.

SA Power Networks reaches for a 1.5GW solar dial

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 9, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

The South Australian network is working out a way to manage the largest source of generation in the state … rooftop PV.

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.

South Australian regulations for new solar power systems: GSES

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 29, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

Solar installers all over Australia should make themselves familiar with changes imposed on new PV systems in South Australia. This report by GSES details how it works.

Solar remote-control a sign of maturity: SwitchDin

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 29, 2020 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

Solar is so popular and powerful that owners will have to accept some give-and-take, says SwitchDin CEO Andrew Mears, as South Australia moves to manage grid stability with its Smarter Homes Program.

Technology Investment Roadmap leaves renewables at the side of the road: CEC

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 23, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Renewables | 0 |

The Coalition’s technology investment roadmap has overlooked solutions to the clean energy transition that are begging for attention, including transmission and offshore wind, says the CEC.

‘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.