Solar PV is cleaning up the energy mix, writes Longi president Zhenguo Li, but this is just the beginning…
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Battery standard has put a huge hump in the road: sonnen
The new standard for battery storage goes too far, says sonnen technical director Australia-New Zealand James Sturch.
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Virtual power plants, real pain … how the VPP puzzle has brought on a mild headache
Virtual power plants made up of other people’s batteries sound like a great idea but, gee, they’re a headache to put together. Will they make it to the finish line?
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Microgrids come to market
As the tools to generate and manage electricity onsite evolve, energy users are realising they can rely on themselves instead of leaning only on the grid.
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Feel the power … CEC announces 2019 Solar Design and Installation Awards finalists
Ten installations are competing in three categories: under 30kW, 30-240kW and over 240kW. Good luck!
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Are clouds gathering over large-scale solar?
Painful marginal loss factors, asset write-downs, negative pricing, forced curtailment – the forces have been stacked against large-scale solar this year. Is it time for a turnaround in fortunes … or time to pull up stakes?
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Melbourne installer’s seen a lot change in his 10 years under the sun
Brendan Waldron, senior project manager at Melbourne-based Next Generation Electrical, talks about how very, very far the industry has come in only 10 years.
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Lifting solar PV module quality to a ‘higher standard’
The CEC list of approved PV modules now highlights panels that meet a range of higher standards, writes the CEC’s Sandy Pulsford, so buyers have the upper hand.
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Sizing PV and storage in stand-alone power systems
A report from GSES shows the significant relationship between PV arrays and battery days of autonomy in stand-alone power systems.
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Real vs Reactive: the new power balance
A three-year trial that tested the value to networks of residential solar and storage systems uncovered the hidden value in reactive power – and the potential for inverters to really flex their muscles.
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