Commercial | EcoGeneration

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?

Connector confusion highlights solar industry grey areas

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 23, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Residential, Solar | 0 |

The introduction of the MC4-EVO-2 connector has created some uncertainty in the industry. James Patterson clears up the confusion.

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.

Demand response in a distributed, decentralised, decarbonised and digitalised NEM: much more than “negawatts”

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 16, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, Policy, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

Consumers big and small stand to gain as the full market power of energy demand response is unleashed, writes Alan Rai of the AEMC.

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.

AEMC moves on demand response ruling ahead of an October start date

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 12, 2020 | Commercial, Efficiency, Policy, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

Participants in the new demand response market created by the rule change will have similar obligations to large-scale energy generators.

The AEMC’s five-minute settlement rule change … timebomb or energy price piñata?

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 11, 2020 | Australia, Commercial, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Wind | 0 |

It started as a simple suggestion to the AEMC, but the alignment of energy dispatch with financial settlement turned into a monster task that couldn’t stay in the too-hard basket any longer.

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.

Turning on the Top End … a solar installer’s journey, from Eire to here

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 5, 2020 | Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The tropical Northern Territory is dotted with diesel generators, and NC Electrical & Air Conditioning managing director Neill Carberry tells EcoGeneration he’s busy swapping them out for solar.

Circular solution to PV’s impending crisis

by EcoGen Editor | Mar 5, 2020 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar | 0 |

It’s time to think ahead about recycling PV panels, writes Emily Gentilini of Arup. Manufacturers, policymakers, investors and consumers must all take part in finding a solution.