Solar Projects | EcoGeneration

High hopes with concentrated solar power: All-Energy panel

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 20, 2020 | International, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

An energy solution gaining ground around the world that combines generation with storage was profiled during a panel session for All-Energy 2020.

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?

Fulfilling utility-scale PV module contracts in a choppy market

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 13, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, Company Updates, For Installers, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

Solar module manufacturer Longi is carving out market share in the utility-scale sector as developers wrestle with the grid and competitors throw up challenges.

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.

CEC Solar Awards 2020 … brilliant thinking, powerful projects

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 4, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The Clean Energy Council’s 2020 Solar Design and Installation Awards focused on PV systems that helped owners of commercial and industrial enterprises cut their ties with polluting generation in creative ways.

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.

Ikea PV-and-batteries microgrid targets 70% self-consumption and access to FCAS markets

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 16, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Installers, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The Adelaide outlet will use voltage-mastering technology to allow it to provide grid services to the local network.

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.

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.

Bifacial shines as PV power booster in cloudy conditions

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 18, 2020 | Australia, For Installers, International, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

US solar tracking company Alion Energy explains the results of research that shows how premium equipment can reap respectable yields from non-premium sites.