Company Updates, Funding, Renewables
World-first energy-trading market trial to maximise value of solar
A world-first trial of energy-trading software will empower consumers to tap into the full value of their rooftop solar and battery storage systems.
Policy, Renewables
Labor’s emissions intensity scheme will hit 50% renewable energy target by 2030: Shorten
Labor leader Bill Shorten will introduce an emissions intensity scheme to turn the screws on polluting electricity generators and reach a 50% RET by 2030.
Comment, Policy, Renewables
Labor’s climate policy could remove the need for renewable energy targets
Labor has been criticised for vacillating about about its 50% renewable energy ambition. But its proposed emissions intensity scheme could boost green energy without any hard target at all, writes Tony Wood.
Efficiency, Funding, Renewables
Australian Technologies Competition 2017 … the hunt begins for tomorrow’s big ideas
The Australian Technologies Competition is gearing up for it's seventh year, so it's time to get those big clean energy ideas ready for scrutiny.
Company Updates, For Consumers, Solar
Retail entrant Energy Locals offers 10c/kWh FiT honey to solar owners
If you want to entice people to install solar, you need to offer the incentive of a decent feed-in tariff. That’s the thinking of Energy Locals.
Company Updates, Renewables
Magellan Power wins 1MW Onslow storage contract
Magellan Power has won a contract to supply a utility-scale battery storage system to a solar-and-storage microgrid project in Onslow, WA.
Company Updates, Efficiency
Numen device-indentifying software the ‘missing link’ in energy efficiency
A piece of hardware developed by Ecocentric in collaboration with the CSIRO may be the catalyst that brings a wave of investment in energy efficiency.
Company Updates, Renewables
India testing ground for Ecoult’s UltraBattery
Ecoult’s UltraBattery is being tested in the harsh heat of India for its potential to ween the world off diesel.
Renewables
Uni students power up with world’s largest rack of Enphase batteries
A Sydney student block is humming ahead with a solar-and-storage renewable energy system that includes the 36 Enphase batteries.
Solar