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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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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Lyon launches utility-scale battery storage market services tender
The Lyon Group is seeking expressions of interest for contracts to cover up to 640MWh of storage capacity across Victoria, South Australia and Queensland.
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The day the ‘death spiral’ died
United Energy’s award-winning virtual power plant proved it was possible to manage peak demand.
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Drop the hype and sell the benefits of batteries: Enphase
The Australian solar-and-storage market is a complex environment, says Nathan Dunn of Enphase, where "you have to be focused on delivering a solution to each one of the different folks within the value chain.”
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Panel: What Australia can teach New York (and vice versa)
Energy Networks Australia’s Welcome to the Grid Edge seminar in Sydney in May included a panel discussion about the possible opportunities which lie in wait for consumers as the electricity grid is transformed into a multi-purpose, peer-to-peer market that also serves generators and distributors.
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2016 a record year for clean energy: CEC report
A record share of Australia’s electricity came from renewable energy in 2016, according to a report by the Clean Energy Council.
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ARENA to test market for concentrated solar thermal projects
ARENA has set out its plans for seeking industry information as the first step in exploring how concentrated sunlight could generate reliable, affordable renewable energy with built-in storage for our national grids.
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Panel: Catalysts for an ‘active’ grid edge
Energy Networks Australia’s Welcome to the Grid Edge seminar in Sydney in May included a panel discussion about how the electricity market may be influenced by new technology which orchestrates
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Will the connection standard be a speed bump for batteries?
Installers are hyped about a busy market for storage but the new Australian Standard which limits connection to the grid may slow things down, writes Jeremy Chunn, if the networks feel like flexing their muscle.
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