Electric Vehicles | EcoGeneration

Network offers free EV top-ups to boost touring

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 19, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Renewables | 0 |

A rollout of chargers available free-of-charge in weeny towns around Victoria will nudge the uptake of EVs, a new venture hopes.

ARENA pushes EVs forward with $16.5m fast-charge funding boost

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 16, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Renewables, Storage | 0 |

Fast-charging stations in major population centres will be delivered to set motorists’ minds at ease about the inevitable transition.

Networks gear up to manage EV demand on the grid

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 8, 2021 | Australia, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, VPPs | 0 |

A trial to coordinate EV charging at 176 homes will test networks’ tolerance for increasing demand on the grid as the national fleet is upgraded.

Re-charged … EV batteries’ second life as C&I storage

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 4, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Retired EV batteries packaged into C&I-scale storage solutions will appeal to owners of medium-sized PV systems who feel storage is beyond their budgets.

Catch it if you can … the race to build tomorrow’s storage

by EcoGen Editor | Dec 1, 2020 | Australia, Bioenergy, Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

There is no argument about the vital role storage will play in a grid dominated by variable renewables, writes Jeremy Chunn, but its rise is sure to be a prolonged affair that is potholed with risk.

ARENA’s Darren Miller on how to build a risk-filled renewables portfolio … ‘none of our investments are duds – even the ones that fail’

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 18, 2020 | Australia, Bioenergy, Comment, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Hydrogen, Interviews, Ocean Power, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, VPPs, Waste-to-energy, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

As head of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, Darren Miller is pushing the technologies that will support and deliver tomorrow’s clean energy grid.

Dreamy EV rollout or nightmare for the grid: All-Energy panel

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 17, 2020 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

As EVs very slowly replace petrol-powered cars, networks, consumers, infrastructure companies and policymakers must very quickly adapt their thinking and services.

Greenbacks for greenery … venture capital hears the call for clean energy

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 17, 2020 | Australia, Climate, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, International, International, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, VPPs, Waste-to-energy, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Climate-conscious venture capitalists are once again placing big bets on clean technology. Can they make money and protect the planet?

West Australia moves to flatten the duck curve with solar buyback scheme

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 2, 2020 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

The West Australian government has unleashed a change to tariffs that will make the real value in solar as clear as daylight.

Future focused: how will the energy developments of today impact the future our children inherit?

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 11, 2020 | Comment, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Renewables, State Policy | 0 |

The energy choices we make over the next few decades will shape the future, writes Christopher Dean.

Part II: Is AEMO’s 2020 Integrated System Plan up to the job?

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 10, 2020 | Australia, Bioenergy, Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Waste-to-energy, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

What do you think of AEMO’s 2020 Integrated System Plan? Here’s what EcoGeneration’s energy antenna picked up from its network of women experts in solar, storage, academia, government and data-crunching.

Part I: Is AEMO’s 2020 Integrated System Plan up to the job?

by EcoGen Editor | Aug 5, 2020 | Australia, Bioenergy, Comment, Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Waste-to-energy, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

What do you think of AEMO’s 2020 Integrated System Plan? Here’s what EcoGeneration’s energy antenna has picked up so far from its network of experts in solar, storage, academia, government and data-crunching.