The construction of a solar farm in regional New South Wales has helped bring “generational change” to a local Aboriginal community and set a new benchmark for how renewable energy developers go about the vital business of engagement and building social licence. For the Wiradjuri people of Narrandera in regional New South Wales, who make…
The energy market participation of customer energy assets through coordinated virtual power plants could shave $6 billion off electricity costs, tame the solar duck, and remove the need for remote rooftop solar switch-offs, a new report has found. The massive potential energy cost savings, calculated by Deloitte, are based on a comprehensive three-year research project…
After nearly two decades of stagnation, US electricity demand is surging, driven by growing numbers of electric cars, data centers and air conditioners in a warming climate. But traditional power plants that generate electricity from coal, natural gas or nuclear energy are retiring faster than new ones are being built in this country. Most new…
Rooftop solar PV has reached a new production milestone, producing more than 12GW of electricity for the first time on Australia’s main grid. The new peak of 12,261 MW (12.26 GW) for the National Electricity Market was reached in the five minute trading period at 12.30pm (AEST) on Wednesday, according to data provided by GPE…
Solar roof tiles, along with windows and even cladding that can generate solar power, are exciting new building materials, but figuring out how to integrate these – and cost them – at the design phase of a building is difficult. To fix this problem, RMIT University has created software that helps architects and engineers incorporate,…
The combination of rooftop solar and large scale solar set yet another new record over the weekend, accounting for 126.7 per cent of South Australia state demand at its peak at 12.55pm (AEST) on Sunday. The new benchmark, sourced from data analysts GPE NEMLog2, comes just a week after rooftop solar alone accounted for more…
Victoria’s Solar Homes scheme has been adjusted, again, this time to allow double dipping on the rebate offered on rooftop PV panels, under certain circumstances. State energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio said on Thursday that households that had already taken advantage of rebates and interest-free loans for solar could now access the program again if they…
With funding from the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) Victoria, Boundary Power has developed a relocatable, hydrogen
After meeting with Aboriginal elders at Narrandera, in regional New South Wales, Beon Energy Solutions’ Justin Coburn employed local Wiradjuri and Yorta Yorta woman Shaurntae Lyons to help coordinate community engagement for the construction of Iberdrola’s 240MW Avonlie Solar Farm. We talk to Justin and Shaurntae about how their teamwork has left a lasting legacy…
New South Wales may well have the biggest fleet of coal generators in the country – even after the closure of the ageing Liddell coal generator in April – but it may be about to stun the energy world with a new, unexpected record for renewables. On Thursday this week, the share of renewables in…
A $500 million solar farm has been flagged as the first project from a new Tasmanian renewables company called TasRex, which has been launched with ambitious plans to build a 5GW portfolio of onshore and offshore renewable projects. The company made its official launch at the Bell Bay Advanced Manufacturing Zone on Thursday, and is…
Australia has set yet another rooftop solar record, this time for average system size, which reach a new all-time high of 9.59kW over the month of September, according to the latest data from SunWiz. In what was a slightly quieter month for installs, compared to August, SunWiz says that number of households installing systems with…