Solar | EcoGeneration

Ikea PV-and-batteries microgrid targets 70% self-consumption and access to FCAS markets

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 16, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Installers, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The Adelaide outlet will use voltage-mastering technology to allow it to provide grid services to the local network.

Towards a two-sided market … the role for demand response in tomorrow’s grid: expert panel

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 13, 2020 | Comment, Efficiency, For Consumers, PPAs, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The Energy Security Board has highlighted industrial load flexibility as an important potential contributor to grid stability. Is it a target we can hit? EcoGeneration asks a panel of experts to light the way forward.

SA Power Networks reaches for a 1.5GW solar dial

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 9, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

The South Australian network is working out a way to manage the largest source of generation in the state … rooftop PV.

Replace coal and gas exports with clean energy? It can be done … if the grid is 2,000% renewables: All-Energy

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 8, 2020 | Australia, Climate, For Consumers, Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

It may be possible, if the technology is affordable and agreements are in place, to switch from dirty energy exports to clean ones … if Australia generates more than 20 times the electricity it does today.

Batteries make sense today based on tomorrow’s energy economics: Evergen

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 7, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Having signed a deal to enable hydrogen battery storage, the Australian energy-technology company is moving fast on multiple VPP projects and more.

Perovskite solar research wins $2.5m ARENA backing

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 2, 2020 | Funding, Renewables, Solar, Solar | 0 |

Support for the University of Sydney research is part of a $15 million round of funding into solar by ARENA.

Network-connected inverter trial to free up residential PV exports

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 2, 2020 | For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

A 12-month trial will test a flexible solar connection to up to 600 rooftop PV customers in South Australia and Victoria who live in areas where the network is constrained.

Locked-out from PV? How about a plot in a 1MW community solar garden

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 30, 2020 | Australia, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

The notion of tapping those who can’t own PV to fund community clean energy projects is being tested in NSW’s sunny Riverina region.

South Australian regulations for new solar power systems: GSES

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 29, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

Solar installers all over Australia should make themselves familiar with changes imposed on new PV systems in South Australia. This report by GSES details how it works.

Solar remote-control a sign of maturity: SwitchDin

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 29, 2020 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

Solar is so popular and powerful that owners will have to accept some give-and-take, says SwitchDin CEO Andrew Mears, as South Australia moves to manage grid stability with its Smarter Homes Program.

AGL expands Adelaide virtual power plant to east coast states

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 24, 2020 | Company Updates, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The retailer is moving beyond a slow-and-steady success of its VPP in Adelaide in the hopes of satisfying AEMO’s request for “shallow storage” capacity.