Renewables | EcoGeneration

‘Reliable systems in extreme locations’ … this installer’s been all around the world

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 14, 2019 | For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Peter McKernan has installed systems in parts of the planet where solar and storage change lives.

Take it to vertical … the story behind a CEC Solar Awards winner

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 14, 2019 | For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

A cool-looking house in central Sydney makes the most of the often-overlooked elegance of solar modules. Will the fashion catch on?

Best and brightest: CEC Solar Awards winners for 2019

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The Clean Energy Council’s 2019 Solar Design and Installation Awards included shining examples of what this talented industry can do with more than a few modules when imaginations are let off the leash.

Energy demand response for a two-sided market

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The future is micro, nano and perhaps even pico-grids orchestrated to solve energy dilemmas at a local level, writes Shaun Scallan.

Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to avoid it: Garnaut

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 6, 2019 | Australia, Climate, Comment, For Consumers, Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewables | 0 |

If Australia is to realise its immense opportunity in a zero-carbon world, it will need a different policy framework.

SolarEdge makes a big break for batteries as the rules of PV shift

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 31, 2019 | Commercial, Company Updates, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

SolarEdge is hoping will secure it supremacy as a smart-thinking provider of energy-and-storage solutions, co-founder Lior Handelsman tells EcoGeneration.

New Grid Reliability Fund a welcome boost to transmission investment: CEC

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 31, 2019 | Funding, Renewables, Solar, Storage, Wind | 0 |

A $1 billion top-up for the Clean Energy Finance Corporation can prepare the energy system for the shift from coal to renewable energy.

Overzealous tactics help energy companies maintain a dying status quo

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 31, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

The incumbent energy companies have nothing to gain by standing in the way of renewables, writes Huon Hoogesteger. And yet, that’s exactly what some of them are doing…

An offshore wind heads for Australia

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 31, 2019 | Projects, Renewables, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Australia’s first offshore wind project a step in the right direction, writes Kashish Shah.

Energy efficiency, the key to unlocking the DER model

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 21, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

For a network of connected distributed energy resources to work at peak efficiency owners of solar must make the most of their generation, writes Shavaj Kallamkote.