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Investment risk in renewables … seeking value in a frothy green market

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 30, 2021 | Australia, Comment, Commercial, For Consumers, Funding, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Clean energy is growing in the grid but there is still plenty of risk for big investors.

Things will get worse before they get better … how curtailment and restrictive MLFs will precede the dawn of renewable energy zones

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 26, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, Demand response, Funding, Hydrogen, Policy, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Transmission, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Grid constraints are symptoms of an energy system in transition, say analysts. A balancing act of new supply and transmission will see bumps along the way.

To the limit … ANU lab open for extreme (or mundane) DER testing

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 22, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, For Installers, Hydrogen, Ocean Power, PPAs, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs, Waste-to-energy, Wind | 0 |

Dull or extraordinary grid conditions can be conjured to stress test clean energy equipment at the ANU’s laboratory dedicated to distributed energy resources.

Gusts up, prices down … good news and bad about wind’s towering role in Victoria

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 19, 2021 | Pumped hydro, Renewables, Wind | 0 |

A pocket of stillness has highlighted how wind may have concentrated price power in Victoria as coal is retired.

Wind farm data cruncher turns out a 45% better 5-minute forecast

by EcoGen Editor | Jul 14, 2021 | Australia, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

An Australian university has developed software that by increasing accuracy of five-minute forecasts can push down associated liabilities to the NEM.

A green bubble? The renewables investment boom dissected

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 17, 2021 | Commercial, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, Hydrogen, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage, Wind | 0 |

Green stocks are on a wild ride as investors of all stripes get on board. The Economist dissects the investment boom.

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.

Energy Next: connecting technologies with the clean energy sector

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 9, 2021 | For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Wind | 0 |

This year the Australian Clean Energy Summit will share the stage with Energy Next, where the renewables crowd can learn about tomorrow’s technology.

AER penalty for lax bidding soars a hundredfold … newbies beware

by EcoGen Editor | Jun 2, 2021 | Australia, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The Australian Energy Regulator has ramped up penalties that may be applied to owners of power plants, no matter the technology, if they fail to refine bidding before dispatch.

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.