Utilities

French renewable energy and battery storage developer Neoen has landed $160 million in finance from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to built what will be – at least for a short while – the biggest lithium ion battery in Australia.The…

One thing we can expect as the energy world transitions away from a centralised and largely fossil fuelled grid to a renewable and distributed market is that it will look very different from what we have now. But what exactly will it look…

Transmission company Transgrid is to build the first big battery in Australia using Tesla’s recently introduced Megapack battery technology, and what is likely to the first of more than 10 big batteries to be built across NSW as it…

US utility Green Mountain Power says that its ever-expanding and varied network of energy storage systems – ranging from Tesla Powerpacks to the home-based Tesla Powerwalls, has saved customers approximately $US3 million on their…

One Step Off The GridWestern Australia’s government-owned utility, Western Power, has installed a 13th community battery on the state’s grid – but in this case on the customer connection side as part of a unique five-year trial with the…

Clean Power Published on June 27th, 2020 | by Zachary Shahan June 27th, 2020 by Zachary Shahan The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) has been promoting and tracking clean energy in the US Southeast for many years. It now…

Batteries Published on June 25th, 2020 | by Nexus Media June 25th, 2020 by Nexus Media By Jeremy Deaton Experts disagree about how fast the United States can replace coal and gas-fired power plants with zero-carbon electricity. Some…

Plans to build a 720MW solar farm and a very big battery of around 400MWh in the New South Wales New England region have cleared another major hurdle, after locking in a grid connection agreement with network provider Transgrid. Developer…

One Step Off The Grid The Western Australia government has installed the state’s fifth grid-connected “community” PowerBank battery – the first for the state’s South West region – in the bayside City of Busselton, around 50km north of…

As South Australia energy minister Dan van Holst Pellekaan notes, the state is mighty proud of its collection of energy “firsts” – a world leader in the uptake of rooftop solar and wind energy, the host of the world’s biggest lithium-ion…