We stand at a crossroads. If government stimulus packages around the world favour carbon-intensive practices and miss the moment to modernise and decarbonise, we will lock ourselves into a warming future.
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Australia’s grid can take 75% renewables by 2025: GlobalData
Despite covid-19, Australia’s grid is strong enough to accommodate up to 75% renewables by 2025, says GlobalData analysis.
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Great balls of hail … the invisible PV peril
Destructive weather events always arrive from out of nowhere, and usually the damage is immediately obvious. But that's not always the case for hailstorms, writes Dr Michelle McCann.
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Western Australia, the state that stands behind stand-alone systems
Western Australia is leading the way when it comes to replacing expensive networks with stand-alone systems that rely on solar and battery storage. EcoGeneration speaks to Western Power SPS project manager Margot Hammond about managing a mighty transition.
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RayGen focuses its energies on vast storage potential
A new form of storage is preparing to prove itself with a 50MWh trial in Victoria – followed, it hopes, by a 1GWh monster project.
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CEC report looks back on 2019 … a record year for renewables
Although 2020 is looking to be a tough year for the renewable energy sector, no thanks to the global covid-19 pandemic, the Clean Energy Council’s annual round-up of data for the industry has shown that 2019 was a standout.
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How do PV module performance ratios perform?
The convenience of using performance ratios as benchmarks can put project proponents in a blind spot, writes Michelle McCann.
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How should we think about a hydrogen economy?
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.
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Will wind fill the gap?
If it’s 24-hour power we need, wind is way ahead of solar. But can these giant propellers fill most of the gap left by 23GW of coal power that needs to leave the NEM? Jeremy Chunn reports.
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When one wind turbine is enough … a case study from the blustery far south
The Portland Wind Project in Victoria might be extra small but it proves the versatility of wind technology.
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