Solar Projects | EcoGeneration

CEC Solar Awards finalist: Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, SA … the long load

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 20, 2021 | Commercial, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

Two goals were pursued at once: invest in business operations and put in the best tender possible.

Maoneng’s journey from rooftop solar to major league storage

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 19, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, Company Updates, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Transmission | 0 |

Maoneng has made a few quick turns during its short history. But the call to take part in the storage “boom cycle” has been heard loud and clear, CEO Morris Zhou tells EcoGeneration.

Andrew Forrest plans huge Qld clean energy plant, signs solar deal, plots against gas

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 12, 2021 | Australia, For Consumers, Funding, Hydrogen, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind | 0 |

The proposal for a factory in Gladstone is the most significant of Forrest’s plans for Fortescue Future Industries.

ARENA’s Darren Miller on what’s proven and what’s worth a shot

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 11, 2021 | Bioenergy, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Transmission, VPPs, Waste-to-energy, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

There has to be a way to push the cost of solar 70% lower, the ARENA chief says, as surely as there are effective methods to capture and store carbon. But exporting hydrogen…?

ARENA seeks microgrids that can stand up for communities and stand up to nature

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 6, 2021 | Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

ARENA’s Regional Australia Microgrid Pilots Program can improve the resilience and reliability of electricity supply in faraway places, says CEO Darren Miller.

How fossil entrants to Australia can align their clean ambitions with renewables reality

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 6, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

A report from PwC shows that good intentions at the outset may sometimes obscure a misalignment between the way investors and developers think about clean energy partnerships.

Full disclosure the secret to managing clean energy project insurance costs

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 5, 2021 | Australia, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Wind Projects | 0 |

Owners of renewable projects – batteries in particular – will have a better chance of managing the price they pay for insurance if they take a team approach.

NSW 50% emissions target relies on transmission that isn’t there

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 30, 2021 | Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

There are already more than enough renewables projects proposed in NSW to go beyond 50%, but there are two key issues: transmission and storage.

ARENA backs $50m microgrids pilot

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 24, 2021 | Australia, For Installers, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The call for stand-alone power systems to supply remote parts of the country will see diesel displaced in favour of solar and storage.

Clean Energy Salary Survey 2021

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 22, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Installers, Hydrogen, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

As the world slowly realises the primary task of the century is to decarbonise electricity generation, renewables workers will be in hot demand. The Bradman Recruitment-EcoGeneration Renewable Energy Salary Survey 2021 shows how they fare in Australia.

ACE Power launches with 1.3GW solar, wind and battery pipeline

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 20, 2021 | Australia, Company Updates, For Installers, Funding, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

A clean energy player with a vertical business model hopes to have 1.3GW of solar and wind (with storage) connected by 2025.

Solar power’s supply chain crisis makes 1.5°C climate target a major challenge: Rystad

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 14, 2021 | Commercial, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

A target of 1.7°C is far more achievable, given the effects of rising input costs and covid-19 on an industry that would need to sustain 10% growth in annual capacity.