Transmission | EcoGeneration

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.

The end of the beginning … the Energy Security Board’s Physical Retailer Reliability Obligation and the long road to tomorrow’s grid

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 23, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Transmission, VPPs, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The Energy Security Board’s Physical Retailer Reliability Obligation and the long road to tomorrow’s grid.

Get it right this time … testing and rigour will help us build the renewable energy grid we need

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 16, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, PPAs, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Transmission, VPPs, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The complex make-up of our energy grid is holding back its full potential, writes Mark Andrews. Only an earnest approach to risk mitigation and testing will ensure success of a new, clean NEM.

Investment risk in renewables … seeking value in a frothy green market

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 30, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Clean energy is growing in the grid but there is still plenty of risk for big investors.

Things will get worse before they get better … how curtailment and restrictive MLFs will precede the dawn of renewable energy zones

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 26, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, Demand response, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Grid constraints are symptoms of an energy system in transition, say analysts. A balancing act of new supply and transmission will see bumps along the way.

Deciding our distributed energy future

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 7, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Storage, Transmission, VPPs | 0 |

The debate around the regulatory reform of distributed energy resources will help decide the future direction of Australia’s electricity system, writes Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton.

The 20,000 sensors that show what’s happening along Queensland network’s poles and wires

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 6, 2021 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, Transmission, VPPs | 0 |

A project by Luceo Energy that shows the effect of solar exports on the grid is expected to help the network owner target investment in capacity.

Global alignment against carbon puts Australia at a crossroads

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 18, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar Projects, State Policy, Transmission, Wind Projects | 0 |

As major economies agree on a deadline for decarbonisation investors are watching Canberra for a signal to commit, write Lane Crockett and Fergus Pitt.

Welcome to Camp Kidston … work begins on 2GWh Queensland pumped hydro facility

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 11, 2021 | Australia, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Five years in the planning, work has begun on Genex Power’s ambitious clean energy storage facility in northwest Queensland.

CEFC gets NSW-SA-Vic EnergyConnect link over the line, with 1.8GW of projects to follow

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 1, 2021 | Australia, Funding, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Storage, Transmission, Wind | 0 |

The new connection – expected to cost $2.28 billion – will free up vast amounts of new opportunities for developers of solar, wind and storage projects.