One of the biggest events on the renewables calendar, All-Energy Australia, is done and dusted for another year, after a likely record-breaking turnout. The official numbers aren’t in yet, but there were 15,000 registrations and the word is the numbers who turned up will easily eclipse last year’s event, which topped 8,500 attendees. With thousands…
There is little doubt that South Australia is leading the world on the integration of wind and solar. Now, it’s about to take an even bolder leap into a deep green energy future through its hydrogen jobs plan. The state has sourced more than 70 per cent of its electricity demand from wind and solar…
The authority handling the tenders and auctions for the 12GW of new wind, solar and storage capacity need to replace coal in the NSW grid has revealed some of the secrets of success for the winners of the first tender, including the country’s first eight hour battery storage facility. AEMO Services has published the insights…
Synergy’s Solar Rewards initiative, which kicked off at the start of October, is supporting Western Australians who have invested in
Unplanned outages across Australia’s increasingly unreliable fleet of ageing coal power plants and extreme weather events are helping to make Australia’s electricity market the most volatile in the world, new research from Rystad Energy has found. Rystad Energy says a comparison of 39 electricity markets globally reveals that Australia’s NEM has the widest spreads between…
Western Australia gentailer Synergy has seen an “overwhelming response” to its offer of $100 credit to customers who allow it to temporarily turn off their grid-connected rooftop solar systems to help stabilise the grid. Synergy launched its Solar Rewards program on October 1 and has already had to close new applications, having reached capacity for…
The growth in renewables over the past year has had a major impact on Australia’s main electricity grid, with wholesale prices tumbling from their 2022 peaks, and grid demand and coal output sent to record lows, according to the latest update from the Australian Energy Market Operator. The latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics report published by…
Rooftop solar is grabbing a lot of headlines, and setting lots of records. It’s also eating the traditional feeding lots of the fossil fuel industry, and reshaping the way the grid is being managed. But it’s also presenting some interesting challenges. Last week, Australian Energy Market Operator chief Daniel Westerman called emergency rooftop solar switch-off mechanisms…
Wind and solar power reached an instantaneous peak of nearly 70 per cent of generation on Australia’s main grid on Monday, setting new output records and sending fossil fuel generation to a new low. The share of renewables in the National Electricity Market hit a new record of 71.55 per cent at 11.50am (AEST) on…
German energy company EnBW has promised that all future solar projects will be paired with battery storage, with plans to expand the new standard to all future wind farms as well. EnBW, a publicly traded energy company in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, made the announcement at the delivery of a battery storage system to…
Global energy giant Engie and South Korea steel maker Posco have agreed to work together on a major green hydrogen project in the Pilbara in an important step towards the creation of a green steel industry in Australia. The two companies announced late Friday that they would conduct a feasibility study into building a “significant”…
REC Group has launched a new 470 watt rooftop solar panel, the highest power residential PV module the Norway founded and Singapore based manufacturer has yet produced. The Alpha Pure-RX, which REC will showcase in Australia at the All-Energy conference in Melbourne next week, is the latest from the company’s Alpha Series of panels. Like…