Solar | EcoGeneration

Resist the pressure: compliance is an installer’s responsibility

by EcoGen Editor | May 4, 2021 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar | 0 |

Ensuring that an installation is compliant with standards is the installer’s responsibility, regardless of pressure from designers or retailers, writes Nathan Smith.

Countdown for industry as demand response rule change looms

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 26, 2021 | Commercial, Demand response, Efficiency, Renewables, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

An AEMO rule change that allows energy users to act independently from retailers in offering demand response is an important step towards a two-sided market, a Spark Club event heard.

AEMC calls for two-second FCAS market in preparation for greener, more volatile energy mix

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 22, 2021 | Commercial, Demand response, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Wind | 0 |

The Australian Energy Market Commission is preparing the way for changes needed in a market where system frequency will have fewer stable generators to rely on.

Rising costs reverse falling price trend for PV modules: Rystad

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 15, 2021 | For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar | 0 |

The falling cost of solar module technology has been arrested by rising costs for materials and shipping.

ARENA backs C&I battery option powered by second-hand EV powerpacks

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 12, 2021 | Commercial, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

An Australian company is working on a production line of 120kWh batteries suitable for commercial and industrial applications.

The power police … community storage comes to calm the market

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 3, 2021 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage, VPPs | 0 |

Behind-the-meter storage might be an efficient way to make the most of a household PV system but far larger batteries are needed at network scale if room is to be made for more solar. The age of community batteries has begun, writes Jeremy Chunn.

Study to assess role of rooftop PV and batteries in times of catastrophe

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 1, 2021 | For Consumers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

How useful can Australia’s vast army of distributed energy resources be when the grid suffers a shock? A new study aims to find out.

Time to get tricky … WA solar installer journeys to the fringe and back again

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 1, 2021 | For Installers, Solar | 0 |

Jase Pearson of Green Earth Electrical says there are still plenty of ways solar and storage can help people in his corner of Western Australia save money.

Solar exports solutions on tap … sell it to your staff or trade it for beer

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 31, 2021 | Commercial, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Solar | 0 |

As the problem of exported solar gets mainstream attention, solutions will become ever more inventive.

CEC clean energy report profiles a year of determined growth

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 30, 2021 | Australia, Commercial, For Consumers, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Looking back on 2020, the Clean Energy Council describes an industry that refused to let a global pandemic stand in its way.

The perils of potential induced degradation

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 29, 2021 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar | 0 |

As rooftop PV systems age, installers need to understand how system performance can be affected by potential induced degradation, writes Michelle McCann.