Communities
Report on W.A. trial using Power Ledger blockchain technology finds peer-to-peer solar energy trading technically feasible, good for grid and consumers – but unlikely to take off under current network tariff structures.
Communities
A new software platform that will allow consumers to choose the provenance of their renewable electricity supply, and help establish clean energy communities, is set to be rolled out in Australia.
Communities
Independent MP Helen Haines leading regional groups arguing that community energy – including wind, solar and battery storage – should form major plank of Covid-19 recovery plans.
Households
Australians have led the world in solar installations on their rooftops, but lag way behind in terms of what they do under the roof. And it’s costing them dearly.
Households
After a successful phase one, Ausgrid launches second phase of household battery-based virtual power plant, with two new “aggregator” partners – ShineHub and Evergen.
Businesses
Epho Commercial Solar’s 1.7MW “urban solar plant” built to demonstrate the “tens of gigawatts” of potential for solar power generation on Australia’s industrial rooftops, has been completed and commissioned in Sydney’s west.
Households
Covid-19 slow-down in Australia’s uptake of solar, batteries and EVs could cancel out billions of dollars of consumer benefits promised by the transition to a two-way distributed energy market.
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.
Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has published its latest report on the quality and safety standards of the nation’s millions of rooftop solar systems, and it’s encouraging news.
SolarShare signs up Epho Commercial Solar to design and build its long-awaited 1.3MW community solar farm in the Majura Valley in Canberra.
Software that uses artificial intelligence to analyse building designs to maximise energy efficiency prior to construction is being launched across Australia next month.
Tesla has quietly laid claim to “the lowest-ever cost” for installing rooftop solar in the United States – and announced a money-back guarantee to back it up.
