A single, national market that supplies all of Australia’s electricty is looking dangerously outdated – and politically impossible, writes Alan Pears of RMIT University.
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Queensland installer hard at work on off-grid and storage solutions
Eco Soul Power owner and director John Ryan-Knight is meeting a lot of demand for off-grid solar PV systems – and everyone wants battery storage, he tells EcoGeneration.
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Redback wins Wellington virtual power plant trial
Redback Technologies has been selected by Contact Energy, one of New Zealand’s leading energy generators and retailers, to participate in a Virtual Power Plant trial in Wellington.
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Energy security: it’s time to start doing things differently
The economics of renewables is not in question, writes Clean Energy Council director of smart energy Darren Gladman, but as clean generation sources replace coal the issue from here on is security of supply.
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‘World’s biggest’ 129MWh Tesla battery approved for SA wind farm
South Australia is going straight onto the world energy map with approval for the world’s largest lithium ion battery, to be installed before summer at Neoen's Hornsdale Wind Farm about 200km north of Adelaide.
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German battery brand Sonnen ramps up plans for Australia with virtual power plant offer
German battery maker Sonnen is the latest entrant to the local peer-to-peer energy trading market with sonnenFlat, which offers electricity at a capped rate in return for access to surplus stored energy to sell into the wholesale market.
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Majority want an energy system dominated by renewables
Australians overwhelmingly want the country’s energy system to be powered by renewables because they see it as the “economically smart” thing for the country's future, The Climate Institute’s Climate of the Nation 21017 report has found.
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‘We need to put our skates on’: Aurecon on the grid challenge
The role of the grid is changing and the way that change is managed will ensure whether or not the rollout of renewables will be easy, says Dr Alex Wonhas of engineering and consulting company Aurecon.
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Improve frequency control to build network stability: Pacific Hydro
According to Kate Summers of Pacific Hydro Australia's approach to frequency control needs to be revised in order to ensure power systems are able to withstand major events and secure energy supply for the future.
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Hope for utility-scale energy storage, but don’t hope for too much
It’s hard to plan ahead when forecasts about the clean energy transition change every day. Academic Dr Roger Dargaville talks about murkiness in the deep reservoir of research and the role he sees for large-scale energy storage.
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