Energy-hungry food sector can easily tighten its belt
There are plenty of ways to cut costs in the food industry, and with energy bills expected to stay high managers need to learn to identify fat from muscle.
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.
Head in the air, feet on the ground: the highwire skills of a clean energy community relations coordinator
Acciona’s Kirsten Lee sees both sides of the story from rural communities as they learn to live with the enormous wind projects that are slowly pushing coal aside.
Snowy 2.0 will not produce nearly as much electricity as claimed … we must hit the pause button
New analysis revealed less than half the extra pumped hydro capacity promised by Snowy 2.0 can be delivered.
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?
PV for your EV: CSIRO charger takes some heat off the grid
With more EVs on Australian roads, demand for charging infrastructure will grow and the CSIRO expects this will place stress on grid-powered charging stations.
Trails of trash inevitably will lead to waste-to-energy solutions
A powerful counterpoint to our mounting garbage is the clean energy that can be harnessed from it – once communities understand the wonders of modern technology.
Governments took the hard road on clean energy – and consumers are feeling the bumps: Grattan Institute
The federal government’s market interventions have not worked. Electricity prices are higher and supply is tight. Consumers are not happy.
Pressure builds as compressed air storage projects attract funds
A form of long-duration storage that can be sited wherever it’s needed is edging closer to reality at two sites on the NEM.
NSW shortlists 2,850MW of projects for $75m Emerging Energy Program
Grants worth $7.1 million have been awarded to projects totalling 2,150MW of on-demand electricity, “with the potential to leverage almost $2 billion in private investment”.
The eight rules of demand response … the source that ‘ticks all three boxes’ of the energy trilemma
Managing energy at the demand side can tick all the boxes of the energy trilemma, says Enel X managing director Asia and Oceania Jeff Renaud.
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.
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!
South Australia floats 100% clean energy ambition on an ocean of liquid hydrogen
Nowhere else in the world is as well positioned to produce, consume and export 100% green hydrogen, says South Australia’s energy minister.
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?
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.
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.
Self-forecasting on the NEM: adopt early or hold on?
While weighing an investment in forecast systems, plants owners have an opportunity to wait and see how the various methods are proven in the field, writes Dr Colin Bonner.
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.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: how feed-in tariffs hold the key to energy incumbents’ future
The energy giants are looking down a barrel as households build their own rooftop generation. Research shows their prospects hinge on where they set feed-in tariffs.
GE to supply 300MWh battery for South Australian solar project
The 300MWh energy storage system, called the Reservoir, will be coupled to a 200MW PV plant in the mid-north of the state.
Burn it and turn it: how Perth’s waste-to-energy plant will shape up
The developers of a 36MW waste-to-energy project in Perth have seen the technology prove itself overseas and expect nothing less when it lights up here in 2021.
Australia, the natural energy exporter
Australia can become a major renewable energy exporter while helping energy deficient countries in Asia to reduce their use of fossil fuels, writes Amar Rathore.
Look who’s doing the heavy lifting at Lal Lal Wind Farm
Wind turbines are growing to epic proportions. Higher and higher they go! But have you ever spared a thought for the people who put these giant propellers together?
