Solar

The proposed 35MW Darwin big battery has received a major funding boost, with the federal government announcing it would provide $15 million of the estimated $30 million cost of the project, which is expected to significantly reduce gas…

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has dropped another Twitter bomb, this time announcing that starting next week, Tesla solar PV panels and Tesla’s integrated solar glass tile roof would be sold only as a package deal with the company’s…

A $23 million renewable energy microgrid that includes a 2MWh battery storage system and Australia’s largest on-campus solar farm at 7MW, has been switched on in Victoria by Deakin University. The microgrid was launched at Deakin’s Waurn…

The business case for battery storage in Australia has been given a major boost with proposed new rules that would reward the technology for its ultra fast response to disturbances on the grid and the key role it can play in keeping the…

Tasmanian Labor believes Premier Peter Gutwein and his Liberal Party have dropped the ball on solar in a big way. Tasmanian Labor Leader Rebecca White is therefore promising $20 million to fund loans for residential and commercial solar and…

Tasmania’s opposition Labor party has pledged to budget $20 million for zero and low-interest loans of up to $15,000 for the state’s households and businesses to buy and install batteries and rooftop solar. The policy promise, delivered…

The 800kW rooftop PV system installed at Hunter Douglas’ Rydalmere factory An 800kW solar system installed on the industrial rooftop of a window furnishing company in Sydney will soon supply power to that company’s employees, by offering…

ASX-listed thermal energy storage hopeful 1414 Degrees is considering doubling the storage capacity of the big battery component of its Aurora Energy Project in South Australia’s Port Augusta to 140MWh, and holding off on the solar…

US beer brand Budweiser has pledged to turn each and every beer green on St Patrick’s Day in the US; not with food dye – as is the tradition for American beer drinkers on March 17 – but with renewable energy. The Anheuser-Busch owned brewer…

A blockchain-enabled electricity market that would reward households for trading with local and trusted “energy neighbours” has been proposed by a team of researchers from Victoria and Queensland. In a paper published in the May edition of…