Renewables | EcoGeneration

Inside a battery’s brain … writing the software that is doctor and cop to large storage assets

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 4, 2021 | Commercial, Demand response, Electric Vehicles, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

Batteries that are 100% risk-free have yet to be designed, but the CSIRO is working on it.

FIRE! … the tiny triggers that can send lithium-ion batteries up in flames

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 3, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Risk of fire in a lithium-ion battery can begin at the molecular level within a single cell, but there are other contributing causes.

Any interval, any DER, any tariff design … billing software aims for Netflix Vs Blockbuster replay

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 2, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, PPAs, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

A software billing service hopes to engage energy retailers who want to entice customers with dynamic, flexible offerings.

The sunlight that powers solar panels also damages them … but ‘gallium doping’ is providing a solution

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 2, 2021 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar | 0 |

The process of manufacturing gallium-doped solar panels was under a patent until last year. It’s only now that this method has started to pick up steam.

ARENA boosts Future Fuels Fund with $24m towards 403 EV charging stations across Australia

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 30, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Renewables | 0 |

Charging stations will be built across eight geographic regions covering 14 of Australia’s most populous cities.

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.

Follow the sun … how tracking stacks up in utility-scale PV

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 28, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, For Installers, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

Tracking has taken off with developers of solar plants but there is a lot to know about this simple technology.

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.

Obey your master … how algorithms can steer a neighbourhood battery

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 23, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

Research shows that if energy professionals and customers agree on what they expect a community battery to do, engineers can write performance algorithms to suit those objectives.

To the limit … ANU lab open for extreme (or mundane) DER testing

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 22, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Hydrogen, Ocean Power, PPAs, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs, Waste-to-energy, Wind | 0 |

Dull or extraordinary grid conditions can be conjured to stress test clean energy equipment at the ANU’s laboratory dedicated to distributed energy resources.

How open energy data can promote sustainability

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 22, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Renewables, VPPs | 0 |

To take sustainability targets seriously governments and businesses must access and understand the reams of data that are often freely available to them, writes Paul Leahy.