Solar | EcoGeneration

WePower platform enables 10-year PPA

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 18, 2020 | Commercial, Renewables, Solar, Solar | 0 |

It is the first time a PPA transaction was executed using a fully standardised and digitised contractual architecture.

Microgrids: how to keep the power on when disaster hits

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 12, 2020 | Commercial, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage, Wind | 0 |

It’s timely to consider how we can build a better system – one that’s more resilient in times of disaster and also doesn’t contribute to making disasters more frequent.

How an Aussie invention could soon cut 5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions

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

A technological arms race in the 1980s resulted in a world-first solar cell, that today underpins half the world’s solar power.

All aboard for solar training

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 7, 2020 | For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

As demand for PV keeps building Australia’s solar training organisations are preparing the next wave of qualified installers, writes Jeremy Chunn.

United Energy trials pole-mounted shared battery storage

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 7, 2020 | Australia, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The solution will make the most of surplus solar that is exported to the grid around midday, when voltage levels can rise on feeder lines where PV is popular with homeowners.

Singapore’s Vena Energy begins 150MWh Qld storage project

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 29, 2020 | Australia, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

Vena Energy Australia will build, own and maintain the BESS while energy retailer AGL will have full operational dispatch rights under a 15-year agreement between the two companies.

SA backup plan seeks 20MW in demand-side capacity

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 28, 2020 | Commercial, Policy, Renewables, Solar, State Policy | 0 |

The program will bring about 20MW of demand-side generation capacity into the NEM over the three-year trial.

Brighter than ever: SunWiz looks back at 2019

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 23, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewable Energy Target, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects | 0 |

For solar systems up to 100kW, 2.13GW of capacity was added in 2019 … more than twice the volume of 2017 and three times the 2016 result.

At the CSIRO, tomorrow’s EV grid lock is today’s problem

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 21, 2020 | Australia, Electric Vehicles, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

Storage and electric vehicles may be slow to take off but the CSIRO is looking far ahead to understand how the technologies can be best absorbed into daily life, Dr Christopher Munnings tells EcoGeneration.

China’s hydro giant tests the limits of PV integration

by EcoGen Editor | Jan 17, 2020 | Company Updates, International, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

One of the world’s largest PV power plant operators, China’s HHDC, is pushing the R&D dial so that hybrid clean energy solutions can be understood and actioned.

Risk assessments and the new battery standard

by Net Maintain | Jan 14, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Policy, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The new battery standard requires a thorough risk assessment process. The CEC’s James Patterson explains why this is important and what installers must do to comply with the standard.

Getting the most out of batteries

by Net Maintain | Jan 14, 2020 | Policy, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Few or many? Big or little? When it comes to reaping the benefits batteries can bring to all energy users, it matters a lot how they are sized and deployed, writes Michael Lewis.