Projects | EcoGeneration

Brighter than ever: SunWiz looks back at 2019

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 23, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewable Energy Target, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

For solar systems up to 100kW, 2.13GW of capacity was added in 2019 … more than twice the volume of 2017 and three times the 2016 result.

At the CSIRO, tomorrow’s EV grid lock is today’s problem

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 21, 2020 | Australia, Electric Vehicles, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

Storage and electric vehicles may be slow to take off but the CSIRO is looking far ahead to understand how the technologies can be best absorbed into daily life, Dr Christopher Munnings tells EcoGeneration.

Australian renewables sector poised for new records in 2020: Rystad

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 21, 2020 | Australia, Funding, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Australia’s renewable energy market is set for another record year in 2020 as Rystad Energy expects utility wind and solar PV projects totaling 3.6GW to complete commissioning, up from 2.6GW in 2019.

Clean energy investment drops 40% in 2019 as price outlook casts a shadow

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 17, 2020 | Australia, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

…but a slowing in investment in 2019 should not come as too much of a surprise.

Module technology driving lower LCOE: Rystad

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 17, 2020 | Funding, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

A sharp fall in cost and a switch to PERC technology has transformed the economics for developers of large-scale solar projects, writes David Dixon.

Offshore wind pushes 2019 renewables investment past 2018: BloombergNEF

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 17, 2020 | Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Uncategorised | 0 |

A string of billion-dollar deals off coasts of mainland China and Taiwan, and in British, French and Dutch waters, made 2019 an all-time high for offshore wind.

China’s hydro giant tests the limits of PV integration

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 17, 2020 | Company Updates, International, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

One of the world’s largest PV power plant operators, China’s HHDC, is pushing the R&D dial so that hybrid clean energy solutions can be understood and actioned.

Doing the megawatt foxtrot … Australia’s top C&I solar companies look back on 2019

by EcoGen Editor | Dec 16, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Interviews, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

Very big solar systems come with many more challenges than the residential variety, and business in the commercial and industrial PV world is competitive. Australia’s two largest C&I solar companies take EcoGeneration through the ins and outs.

‘My 20 years in renewables’ … reflections on the clean energy boom

by EcoGen Editor | Dec 16, 2019 | Australia, Comment, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Wind | 0 |

The clean energy sector is moving so fast it’s easy to forget how far we’ve come. Lacour Energy director Mark Rayner looks back at the past two decades in wonder.

CSIRO circles five hydrogen growth points

by EcoGen Editor | Dec 2, 2019 | Australia, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Renewables | 0 |

The CSIRO is on a mission to bring together industry, government and other research organisations to fast-track emerging hydrogen technologies.

1414 Degrees pays $2m for Aurora CST project

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 29, 2019 | Australia, Projects, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The new owner proposes to use the site to pilot its TESS-GRID technology, with electricity firming services developed to similar scale as the previous project.