Wind and solar project developers could face hefty fees under new guidelines released by the state government in an attempt to fast track the stalled planning approvals process, and ensure social licence at the same time. The state’s ambitious renewable energy infrastructure roadmap to replace its ageing coal generators within the next decade is threatening…
The second stage of what was one of South Australia’s first large-scale solar farms, Vena Energy’s Tailem Bend, has finally been completed, with the commissioning of an additional 87MW of solar – and a 41.5MW, one hour battery still to come. EPC contractor UGL said on LinkedIn that the combined 610,000 panels of the two…
Renewable energy hit a record high of 72.9 per cent of total generation on Sunday, as a wave of wind and solar across Australia’s main grid sent coal output and operational demand to new lows. The new peak of 72.9 per cent on the National Electricity Market (NEM), the country’s main grid, was reached for…
Four hundred households spread across five remote communities in Western Australia’s Kimberley region will have rooftop solar installed, in a joint state and federal government push to slash energy bills and cut regional diesel fuel consumption. The $19.9 million funding partnership, announced at the WA Energy Transition Summit on Friday, will install solar on homes…
If you search the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO)’s 2022 ‘Engineering Roadmap to 100% Renewables’ for the word ‘control’, it will naturally occur frequently. AEMO has control rooms, it is responsible for ‘system security’, that is, keeping the electricity system online in response to disturbances such as the increasingly frequent outages at coal-fired power stations….
With the arrival of warmer weather in the last month of spring and an uptick in demand, large scale solar and rooftop PV have been breaking records left, right and centre across the National Electricity Market, showcasing the growing impact of renewable energy. Solar across the NEM reached a new peak of 6,582.4 MW at…
A solar PV demonstration project has been unveiled in China using Trina Solar’s Vertex S+ Clear Black solar modules – a semi transparent, all-black panel that won a German Design Award this year. The PV corridor demonstration project was unveiled this week at the Yangtze River Delta Institute For Sustainable Development in Shanghai, an R&D…
Indonesia has powered up one of the largest floating solar plants in the world – and the largest, for now, in south-east Asia – with the inauguration this week of the 145MW (AC) Cirata power plant on a reservoir in West Java and the announcement of plans to add a further 500MW. The floating solar…
A solar and battery microgrid installed at the Aboriginal community of Titjikala in the Northern Territory has supplied an average of 83% renewables over the month of September, often covering 100% of the remote town’s energy needs. Titjikala’s 400kW solar array and 970kWh battery energy storage system was installed through the Solar Energy Transformation Program…
The Queensland state grid has reached a new peak in solar output – in terms of share of local demand – with a new benchmark of 71.2 per cent set at 11.35am on Thursday. The new record for the share of solar beat the previous peak of 69.9 per cent set in September this year…
Federal energy minister Chris Bowen is doubling down on his commitment to reaching 82 per cent renewables by 2030, saying an accelerated transition to green energy is essential to cut emissions, prices and to keep the lights on. In a speech to Future Energy Week conference in Adelaide on Wednesday, Bowen also hinted at new…
Where is that wind and solar farm that we keep on hearing about? Where is that big battery? Australia talks a lot about its electricity grid and the shift from fossil fuels to renewables, but the reality is that few people actually know where projects are located – apart from those who live close to…