Households
AEMO wants new inverters to enable rooftop solar to be visible, and switched off if necessary, as PV penetration heads to 50% of grid demand.
Households
What, exactly, is a two-sided wholesale electricity market? And will it really be good for consumers, or just sound like it?
Households
Australian households invested in almost two-and-a-half “Big Batteries” worth of home energy storage in 2019, installing 22,661 systems over the course of the year with a total capacity of 233MWh, and taking further control over their energy supply.
Households
Tesla data shows how household batteries orchestrated through “virtual power plants” provide critical system security services and respond to price signals to push down costs for all consumers.
Households
As Australian states hurtle towards stage 3 lockdowns in response to Covid-19, we ask the experts to list the top energy efficiency measures households can take to stop their bills going through the roof.
Households
COVID-19 impact on Australia’s solar and storage sector may not be all bad, particularly as homes and businesses look for ways to cut energy costs and increase self-reliance.
Households
Australia’s rooftop solar market has shown no signs of slowing down so far in 2020, with booming residential installations in February helping to break all previous records and delivering the highest monthly registered capacity of 218MW.
Communities
All-electric, solar powered housing complex in Utah to feature a Sonnen battery inside all 600 of its apartments, in a deliberate design “statement” unlikely to be replicated in Australia any time soon.
Businesses
Australia’s largest telecom to set ‘good example’ for Australian corporates, will immediately go carbon neutral and sets 100% renewables target for 2025.
Off-Grid
Oz Minerals reveals why it chose wind, solar and batteries over the traditional gas pipeline solution for its new $1 billion mining project.
A 1,044kW solar system installed at the Australian Institute of Marine Science’s headquarters near Townsville will deliver up to $400,000 of savings a year “back into science.”
Deakin-led research team says it has found the ingredients to create safer, more efficient, and higher energy density batteries for use in households and industries.
Australia’s rooftop solar market charts second-highest month in April 2020 with 237MW new capacity installed. But analysts expect a Covid-19 drop-off to hit in May.
3MW solar system completed at Pernod Ricard Winemakers’ Barossa Valley wineries, rounding off the French company’s journey to 100% renewables for its Australian operations.
