For solar PV to fulfill everyone's expectations as a mainstream source of energy in the grid it must lose some of its reputation as an irregular generator. It won't be easy but it can be done, the audience heard.
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CEC Large-scale Solar Forum: Market outlook panel … ‘prepare for risk, and a pause’
It's hard to look too far ahead when network constraints and a growing appetite to buy energy directly from generators are two forces pulling the market from opposite directions.
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CEC Large-scale Solar Forum: Grid connection panel … ‘60% technical, 40% relationships’
It takes careful planning, deep resources, refined diplomatic skills and straight-ahead honesty to negotiate the arcane and frustratingly opaque grid-connection process, the audience heard.
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Solar project racks up 50 PV plants in South Australia as farmers diversify
A renewable energy project that started as a way to provide extra income for grape and citrus growers has built its 50th small-scale solar farm in South Australia.
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Victoria joins the sonnenFlat fray as ‘energy services’ blends with hardware
German-designed, Australian-made battery brand sonnen has the pieces it needs to test the true value of network-integrated storage.
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Free solar sales tool will open doors for installers
A new solar sales software tool allows installers to tap vast industry reserves.
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Solar’s broken promises … risk builds in PV performance guarantees
In the clamour to win business installers are eagerly offering performance guarantees that may put their businesses at risk, writes Jeremy Chunn.
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Jinko Swan bifacial module scoops Intersolar award
JinkoSolar has taken the Intersolar Award 2019 in the Photovoltaics category for its Swan bifacial module with transparent backsheet from DuPont.
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Stand-alone power systems tower over costly power lines in remote WA
The future of electricity is being reinvented in Western Australia, writes Jeremy Wray of CPS National.
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Solar and storage, already wired into the next generation of Australian housing
In a sign of what’s to come, solar and battery energy options are being offered in new properties to solve old dilemmas.
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