It’s the feeling I get from seeing small seedlings sprout from the seedling trays in my glasshouse at the start of spring. It’s the warm fuzzies I get from knowing our rain water tank is full. It’s the deep satisfaction from presenting a meal to friends that’s made from our own produce. These are the…
NSW has dominated the rankings of big solar output in September, almost Steven Bradbury-like as its competitors knocked themselves out of the running due to negative average prices over the month. According to the latest data from energy analysts Rystad Energy, solar farms in NSW accounted for 14 of the top 20 facilities in terms…
Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s electricity consumption so far this year, according to calculations by utility association BDEW and the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg (ZSW). Between January and September, the amount of renewables in the electricity mix rose to around 52 percent – an increase of almost five percentage…
The Western Australia town that was shifted, en masse, off the reticulated gas network and taken all-electric is now the focus of a new retail energy offer targeting households that are unable to install rooftop solar. Horizon Power, which last year began the process of electrifying hundreds of homes and businesses in Esperance after the…
Australia is doing its best to help fulfil International Energy Agency predictions of a global boom in heat pump uptake, with the latest national data showing a 70 per cent jump in installations of the technology that promises a cheaper and more efficient way of heating water and homes. In its second Quarterly Carbon Market…
The local government-backed not-for-profit group behind Victoria’s first inner-urban community battery has turned to solar powered public transport to raise awareness of the vital role that shared energy storage can play in the shift to renewables. The Yarra Energy Foundation last year led the installation of a 110kW/284kWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) in…
Tesla has narrowed down the timing of the arrival in Australia of its hotly anticipated new home battery, telling local installers to expect to start taking orders for the Powerwall 3 in late 2024. Tesla hosted its first ever Australian Installer Day last month in Sydney, giving the industry hands-on access to the suite of…
La Trobe University has announced plans to install what it claims to be the largest “urban solar farm” in Victoria, a 2.9MW PV ground-mounted array and 2.5MW battery (energy storage duration not stated), which will take the total solar generation at the Bundoora campus to 5.8MW. The $10 million La Trobe Renewable Energy Zone will…
Telecommunications giant Telstra says it has signed a deal to take half of the output of a new 120 MW solar farm that is being built in Queensland, its fifth such agreement with large scale renewable projects. Telstra has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to the Munna Creek solar farm that is being built…
Rooftop solar PV continued its middle-of-the-day challenge to the operations of the world’s biggest isolated grid – the South-West Interconnected System in Western Australia – on Monday, sending minimum demand to a record low as it posted a record 76 per cent share of total generation. The new bechnmark came after consecutive weekends of 74…
The latest data released by key energy market institutions shows that the near standstill on new large scale renewable energy projects has continued into the new financial year, with no new solar projects registered in the first two months of 2023/24. The slowdown in new project approvals and financing in the fast half of 2023…
A new home energy management “ecosystem” has been launched in Australia, promising to optimise solar and battery savings by monitoring and automating the use of household appliances, including scheduled electric vehicle charging. Nasdaq listed Maxeon Solar, a spin-off from SunPower in the US, says its SunPower One suite of products and services is now available…