Storage | EcoGeneration

Welcome to Camp Kidston … work begins on 2GWh Queensland pumped hydro facility

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 11, 2021 | Australia, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Five years in the planning, work has begun on Genex Power’s ambitious clean energy storage facility in northwest Queensland.

Check your mirrors: 3 things rooftop solar can teach us about Australia’s electric car rollout

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 10, 2021 | Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

Australia’s world-leading rollout of rooftop solar power systems offers a guide to help navigate the transition to EVs.

Flexible friends … how heavy industry can accelerate renewables

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 9, 2021 | Bioenergy, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Hydrogen, Renewables, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

The hungriest energy users can play a big role in balancing tomorrow’s grid – if they are prepared to be flexible.

Power up the battery … what it takes to drive us to a future of VPPs

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 9, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

Virtual power plants are a growing renewable energy solution, writes Anson Zhang. What are the next steps to enable a VPP-powered future?

Watts on wheels … mobile PV plants target diesel

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 8, 2021 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

A mobile solar power unit – specially customised for construction sites – is expected to put pressure on diesel.

Keep on quietly trucking … fast track to electric commercial fleets

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 4, 2021 | Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Policy, Renewables, State Policy, Storage | 0 |

Electric buses and trucks are already rolling on Australian roads but the benefits are only starting to be understood by buyers.

CEFC gets NSW-SA-Vic EnergyConnect link over the line, with 1.8GW of projects to follow

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 1, 2021 | Australia, Funding, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Storage, Transmission, Wind | 0 |

The new connection – expected to cost $2.28 billion – will free up vast amounts of new opportunities for developers of solar, wind and storage projects.

US must declare war on climate for energy transition to accelerate

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 1, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Hydrogen, International, Interviews, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, VPPs, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

To lead by example, the United States should declare war on the inefficient use of dirty energy, US-based Australian entrepreneurs Danny Kennedy and Saul Griffith told a Spark Club event.

Batteries hit their peak as gas phases out

by EcoGen Editor | May 30, 2021 | Comment, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

When it comes to electricity peaking services, batteries beat gas hands down, writes Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton.

Trust us, VPPs are the way of the future: SAPN report

by EcoGen Editor | May 28, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

A trial of a 1,000-battery virtual power plant on the South Australian network has boosted solar exports, supplied much-needed services to the grid and earned tidy revenue.

What solar traffic jam? … a role for the networks in tomorrow’s solar-filled grid

by EcoGen Editor | May 27, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, PPAs, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

Rooftop solar has brought energy prices down but the networks say its fast growth is disturbing the peace on their poles and wires. Are PV exports to blame or should the networks get with the times? Jeremy Chunn reports.

Storage tears ahead, generation dawdles: CEC Q1 report

by EcoGen Editor | May 26, 2021 | Australia, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Storage, Wind | 0 |

The first three months of 2021 saw firm commitment to new storage projects but very little in the way of new generation, according to a report from the Clean Energy Council.