Commercial | EcoGeneration

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.

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.

The apprentice with 40 years in solar

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

EnviroGroup managing director Mick Harris has seen solar grow fast and strong since he installed his first system in 1980.

Doing the megawatt foxtrot … Australia’s top C&I solar companies look back on 2019

by EcoGen Editor | Dec 16, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Interviews, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

Very big solar systems come with many more challenges than the residential variety, and business in the commercial and industrial PV world is competitive. Australia’s two largest C&I solar companies take EcoGeneration through the ins and outs.

Why demand response demands attention

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 26, 2019 | Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Storage | 0 |

Energy users big and small can tune their load to temper stress on the grid, but the benefits to big industry and networks may be larger than many participants anticipate.

Trina heads into 2020 with hopes on 166mm wafer, tracking efficiencies and all-in-one project offer

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 13, 2019 | Commercial, For Installers, Residential, Solar | 0 |

Chinese solar firm Trina has launched a 166mm wafer it says will see output of 445-450W for a 72-cell panel compared with 405-410W for a 72-cell panel using a 158.75mm wafer.

Best and brightest: CEC Solar Awards winners for 2019

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Commercial, For Consumers, For Installers, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage | 0 |

The Clean Energy Council’s 2019 Solar Design and Installation Awards included shining examples of what this talented industry can do with more than a few modules when imaginations are let off the leash.

Energy demand response for a two-sided market

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 7, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, Efficiency, For Consumers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

The future is micro, nano and perhaps even pico-grids orchestrated to solve energy dilemmas at a local level, writes Shaun Scallan.

SolarEdge makes a big break for batteries as the rules of PV shift

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 31, 2019 | Commercial, Company Updates, For Consumers, For Installers, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

SolarEdge is hoping will secure it supremacy as a smart-thinking provider of energy-and-storage solutions, co-founder Lior Handelsman tells EcoGeneration.

Overzealous tactics help energy companies maintain a dying status quo

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 31, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, Renewables, Solar | 0 |

The incumbent energy companies have nothing to gain by standing in the way of renewables, writes Huon Hoogesteger. And yet, that’s exactly what some of them are doing…

Energy efficiency, the key to unlocking the DER model

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 21, 2019 | Comment, Commercial, For Installers, Renewables, Solar, Solar, Storage | 0 |

For a network of connected distributed energy resources to work at peak efficiency owners of solar must make the most of their generation, writes Shavaj Kallamkote.