Storage | EcoGeneration

CEC calls for covid-19 stimulus to include renewables

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 27, 2020 | Australia, Comment, Efficiency, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The Clean Energy Council has called for federal and state responses to the covid-19 virus to support the continued rollout of rooftop solar and storage.

What the energy world needs now is data data data: ISF

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 26, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Researchers and business owners eager to cut energy waste are flummoxed by a paucity of decent data, writes Joe Wyndham. Without it, what hope is there for fixing the world’s problems?

Auditors’ top five beefs with Victorian residential solar

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 24, 2020 | For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The audit program overseeing Victoria’s Solar Homes program has highlighted five main defects installers can easily get right.

Tomorrow’s brewers to tap the hydrogen they pour down the drain today

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 23, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, Hydrogen, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

An electrolyser that can separate hydrogen from wastewater could signal a new injection of clean energy for industrial applications.

Financial impacts of voltage control inverter response modes

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 22, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The effects of voltage irregularities are more sorely felt by owners of PV systems the farther they are along a line, writes GSES.

Peeking out from behind the meter

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 18, 2020 | Comment, Commercial, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The potential in connected microgrids of distributed energy resources can’t be overlooked much longer, writes Shaun Scallan.

NSW sets out clean energy and energy efficiency plan for 2030, on track to net zero emissions by 2050

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 17, 2020 | Australia, Policy, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The NSW government’s Net Zero Plan Stage 1 is a green light to clean energy investment in the state.

JinkoSolar field test demonstrates gains for bifacial modules

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 16, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Since 2018 Jinkosolar has been running a comparative test of its bifacial module and monofacial PV technology on a variety of mounting types and ground types.

NSW kickstarts community solar and storage with $15m in grant funding

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 13, 2020 | Australia, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Hydrogen, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The NSW Government is backing community solar and storage projects with $15 million in funding.

Payback calculator clears the air for PV investment

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 10, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

A company that helps homeowners source quotes from trusted PV installers has developed a tool that predicts a year’s bill impact.

Water big battery

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 9, 2020 | Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Rooftop PV is pushing down air-conditioning costs at a Queensland campus that runs a water tank like a giant battery.

A global need for better batteries: Calix

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 6, 2020 | Comment, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The adoption of new processes and exploitation of low-cost precursors will be essential in the effort to improve the sustainability of battery technologies.