A virtual power plant sounds like an obvious way to utilise the surplus solar energy stored in residential systems with batteries – but only if owners are rewarded fairly. How will they know if that’s the case?
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Renewables ‘eliminate’ base load reliance in South Australia
The Australia Institute says total renewable generation in South Australia has equated to more than half of total consumption in nine of the past 12 months.
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We need to talk about energy … at work and at home
The message about efficient energy use is slowly getting through to owners of businesses, buildings and houses – but there’s a long way to go.
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Stampeding sheep, cross-border interconnection and China risk: ACES International Perspective panel
Australia may be ahead of the pack in adoption of new technology but we have be aware on how the rest of the world is travelling, an expert panel at the Clean Energy Summit concluded.
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Data deluge, happy customers and those tricky VPPs: ACES Digital Divergence panel
The power of connected systems is so compelling but so far away… What will it take for our distributed energy resources to sing in key?
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Targets, hurdles and the ‘confusopoly’: ACES Leading the Transition panel
A panel at the Australian Clean Energy Summit covered all the rocky ground that lies ahead as renewables inevitably crowd out coal.
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Hydrogen will ease ‘massive challenge’ as world shifts to wind and solar: Finkel
Australia’s chief scientist sees hydrogen as the obvious storage solution as the world ramps up its commitment to solar and wind.
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Wanted: 400,000 batteries at half price … the Canberra charge that could save our wasted solar
Large-scale federal support for residential batteries would benefit everyone ... although some consumers would need convincing.
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1414 Degrees eyes Adelaide ‘smart farm’ for grid-scale thermal energy storage
The project would see 1414 Degrees integrating its grid-scale storage solution, TESS-GRID, into a protected cropping farm development.
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Storage to grow 120-fold in 20 years, pushed by utility-scale applications: BNEF
Energy storage investments will boom as battery costs halve in the next decade, say the authors of a new report from BloombergNEF.
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