Renewables | EcoGeneration

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.

Check your mirrors: 3 things rooftop solar can teach us about Australia’s electric car rollout

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 10, 2021 | Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

Australia’s world-leading rollout of rooftop solar power systems offers a guide to help navigate the transition to EVs.

Energy Next: connecting technologies with the clean energy sector

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 9, 2021 | For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Wind | 0 |

This year the Australian Clean Energy Summit will share the stage with Energy Next, where the renewables crowd can learn about tomorrow’s technology.

Flexible friends … how heavy industry can accelerate renewables

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 9, 2021 | Bioenergy, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Hydrogen, Renewables, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

The hungriest energy users can play a big role in balancing tomorrow’s grid – if they are prepared to be flexible.

Power up the battery … what it takes to drive us to a future of VPPs

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 9, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

Virtual power plants are a growing renewable energy solution, writes Anson Zhang. What are the next steps to enable a VPP-powered future?

Watts on wheels … mobile PV plants target diesel

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 8, 2021 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

A mobile solar power unit – specially customised for construction sites – is expected to put pressure on diesel.

Who you gonna call? … how the CEC’s tech team is onside with quality solar

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 7, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

Clean Energy Council technical support officer Thomas Seymour is part of a crew that keeps solar installers informed – and on their toes.

Keep on quietly trucking … fast track to electric commercial fleets

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 4, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Policy, Renewables, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

Electric buses and trucks are already rolling on Australian roads but the benefits are only starting to be understood by buyers.

AER penalty for lax bidding soars a hundredfold … newbies beware

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 2, 2021 | Australia, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The Australian Energy Regulator has ramped up penalties that may be applied to owners of power plants, no matter the technology, if they fail to refine bidding before dispatch.

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.

US must declare war on climate for energy transition to accelerate

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 1, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Hydrogen, International, Interviews, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, VPPs, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

To lead by example, the United States should declare war on the inefficient use of dirty energy, US-based Australian entrepreneurs Danny Kennedy and Saul Griffith told a Spark Club event.