Solar | EcoGeneration

Kilowatt koalas … the batteries-up-poles project that sends a powerful message about residential storage

by EcoGen Editor | May 27, 2020 | For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

United Energy’s community storage batteries are bringing calm to Melbourne’s Bayside.

Energy gold mine … the wind-solar-storage plant that brings powerful self-sufficiency to the middle of nowhere

by EcoGen Editor | May 26, 2020 | Australia, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

A dynamic power plant in remote Western Australia is showing other miners the possibilities of clean energy.

Solar PV module backsheet durability an issue for Australia

by EcoGen Editor | May 25, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

The failure of standards to keep pace with changing backsheet materials has made it harder for retailers and distributors to ensure backsheet durability, writes the CEC’s Sandy Pulsford.

The C&I solar PV package that serves business and the NEM … the urban power plant has arrived

by EcoGen Editor | May 21, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

A solar project at a Sydney warehouse shows the potential for urban PV power plants.

The brain that’s turned UoQ’s 2.2MWh Tesla Powerpack battery into a private piggybank

by EcoGen Editor | May 20, 2020 | Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

A battery is only as smart as the brain that commands it, and the University of Queensland has connected its 2.2MWh Tesla to a cunning bit of software.

Dark times for big solar

by EcoGen Editor | May 18, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

Are the clouds gathering over solar? EcoGeneration asked a panel of experts for their views on the outlook for this much beleaguered but highly trusted source of clean energy.

Australia’s grid can take 75% renewables by 2025: GlobalData

by EcoGen Editor | May 7, 2020 | Australia, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Despite covid-19, Australia’s grid is strong enough to accommodate up to 75% renewables by 2025, says GlobalData analysis.

Great balls of hail … the invisible PV peril

by EcoGen Editor | May 7, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

Destructive weather events always arrive from out of nowhere, and usually the damage is immediately obvious. But that’s not always the case for hailstorms, writes Dr Michelle McCann.

In search of battery-grade silicon

by EcoGen Editor | May 7, 2020 | Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Battery-grade silicon is expensive and expansive – but we are getting there, writes Dr Mahdokht Shaibani.

Western Australia, the state that stands behind stand-alone systems

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 30, 2020 | Australia, For Installers, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

Western Australia is leading the way when it comes to replacing expensive networks with stand-alone systems that rely on solar and battery storage. EcoGeneration speaks to Western Power SPS project manager Margot Hammond about managing a mighty transition.

RayGen focuses its energies on vast storage potential

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 23, 2020 | Australia, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

A new form of storage is preparing to prove itself with a 50MWh trial in Victoria – followed, it hopes, by a 1GWh monster project.

CEC report looks back on 2019 … a record year for renewables

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 14, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Although 2020 is looking to be a tough year for the renewable energy sector, no thanks to the global covid-19 pandemic, the Clean Energy Council’s annual round-up of data for the industry has shown that 2019 was a standout.