Policy | EcoGeneration

Northern Territory stimulus backs PV and storage

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 6, 2020 | For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

The territory’s Household and Business Battery Scheme has an initial budget for $800,000 or 130 batteries.

By 2050, hydrogen can cut emissions by 34%: BNEF

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 2, 2020 | Hydrogen, International, Policy, Renewables | 0 |

Use of clean hydrogen can help address the toughest third of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, but only if net-zero emission goals and policies are set.

How should we think about a hydrogen economy?

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 1, 2020 | Australia, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Storage | 0 |

It’s all very well to decarbonise the electricity sector but a zealous pursuit of hydrogen might be disproportionate to requirements, write Graham Palmer and Josh Floyd.

CEC calls for covid-19 stimulus to include renewables

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 27, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Efficiency, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The Clean Energy Council has called for federal and state responses to the covid-19 virus to support the continued rollout of rooftop solar and storage.

NSW sets out clean energy and energy efficiency plan for 2030, on track to net zero emissions by 2050

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 17, 2020 | Australia, Policy, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The NSW government’s Net Zero Plan Stage 1 is a green light to clean energy investment in the state.

Demand response in a distributed, decentralised, decarbonised and digitalised NEM: much more than “negawatts”

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 16, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, Policy, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

Consumers big and small stand to gain as the full market power of energy demand response is unleashed, writes Alan Rai of the AEMC.

AEMC moves on demand response ruling ahead of an October start date

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 12, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, Policy, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

Participants in the new demand response market created by the rule change will have similar obligations to large-scale energy generators.

Women in Renewables Your Leadership Voice: Women in Focus 2020 grant winner, GreenSync’s Bridget Ryan

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 6, 2020 | Policy, Renewables | 0 |

A scholarship designed to foist women leaders into the clean energy C suite has named a winner for 2020.

Sonnen and South Australia offer free batteries to bushfire victims

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 5, 2020 | For Installers, Funding, Policy, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The Marshall Government will offer the 188 families who have lost their homes to bushfires across the state a free battery to incorporate into the rebuild.

Breaking Australia’s vicious energy cycle

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 5, 2020 | Australia, Comment, For Consumers, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar Projects, Wind Projects | 0 |

A lack of long-term planning to create a 21st century grid and decades of political infighting are beginning to catch up with us, writes Clean Energy Council chief executive Kane Thornton.

Victoria to deliver electricity transmission for 21st century

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 18, 2020 | Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar Projects, Wind Projects | 0 |

The reforms will help to encourage the new renewable energy investment needed to replace the state’s fleet of ageing coal-fired power stations, CEO Kane Thornton said.

Leading the pack in peak demand reduction

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 5, 2020 | Efficiency, For Consumers, Policy, Renewables | 0 |

NSW leads the nation with its commitment to a peak demand reduction scheme and a boost to its energy savings scheme target. Other jurisdictions are making similar noises, writes Rod Woolley.