Smart Energy

Total 0 Shares The global electric car and storage monolith Tesla is getting ready to take on Australia’s legacy utilities in what would be a landmark move for the local grid and for consumers, and potentially disruptive for the…

Total 0 Shares The bid to kick fossil gas out of Australian homes, electrify everything and power it with solar is off and running in New South Wales, with the launch of an $8 million pilot to decarbonise three local communities across…

The technology’s available. We just need to roll it out. It’s a common theme, and one that the government has embraced (if imperfectly) at both state and federal levels. But decades of research into the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of technology…

Potash Australia CEO Matt Shackleton said several alternative configurations for the microgrid were presented and assessed, and the configuration chosen will help deliver the “greenest” sulphate of potash (SOP) projects in Australia.More…

Australian energy companies and new technology providers have lined up overwhelmingly against a new proposal by the Australian Energy Market Operator that they say could effectively kill the market for “virtual power plants”.VPPs aggregate…

The key role that Australia’s millions of rooftop solar systems stand to play in the running of the national grid, when paired with battery storage and pooled together into carefully orchestrated virtual power plants, has been further…

Tesla is riding on the coat-tails of a phenomenal valuation at the moment – more than $US300 billion – largely based on investor views about the future of mobility. Those investors are convinced the future will be electric and autonomous,…

One Step Off The GridWe lost our house and just about everything in it during the horrific fire season of 2019/20.Ours had the dubious distinction of being one of the very first houses to be lost on that terrible day that ushered in the…

Leading players in the energy industry have called for even lengthier delays to the critical shift to 5-minute settlements, while those committed to a rapid transition to renewables and storage and smart technologies have insisted there…

One Step off The Grid Tesla has teamed up with global catamaran racing championship, SailGP, to help the fledgling sport’s usually diesel-fuelled mobile recharging stations switch to solar and battery storage. SailGP said it had worked…