Solar
Trade in Green PPA offer a boost for the smaller installer
Installers who haven’t got the scale to offer a PPA will feel they are missing out on new business. To certificate aggregator Trade in Green it sounded like an opportunity.
Company Updates
Vector eyes commercial battery market on grid-scale Tesla success
Vector Energy chief executive Simon Mackenzie understands the future will be nothing like the past. “At a high level our vision is about creating a new energy future,” he tells EcoGeneration.
Projects
Hazelwood closure marks symbolic shift from old to new energy
The closure of Victoria’s Hazelwood power plant is a symbolic generational shift from old to new energy across the country, the Clean Energy Council said.
Projects
Hazelwood’s closure won’t affect power prices as much as you think
If the hole left by Hazelwood’s retirement is filled by the excess capacity in NSW, the impacts on the overall costs of running the system would be modest, writes Roger Dargaville.
Renewables
A golden rule for new energy: consumers must own their data
COMMENT | The "internet of things" will deliver power to electricity consumers in a form they never knew, writes Gavin Dietz, all thanks to unlocked data.
Company Updates
One Stop Warehouse’s busy start for GCL E-KwBe battery
Wholesaler One Stop Warehouse has had a very busy year filling demand for parent company GCL’s E-KwBe storage solution.
Renewables
Inside the CSIRO’s hybrid energy systems hothouse
The CSIRO’s Centre for Hybrid Energy Systems is helping industry partners find the best mix of renewable energy generation and storage, and refining hydrogen and fuel cell technologies that may provide tomorrow’s baseload power.
For Consumers, Solar
Optimal approaches to maximising battery ROI
Matching a battery to a householder's expectations and energy consumption is devilishly complicated, writes Warwick Johnston of SunWiz, who explains why smaller storage systems are often better.
Renewables
What is Australia’s biofuel future?
With growing interest in Australia in the production of liquid biofuels, bio-refining experts Geoff Bell, CEO of Australian company Microbiogen, and Ed de Jong, vice-president of development at Dutch renewable chemicals company Avantium, consider the drivers of biofuels production and what the future could look like.
Policy