We talk with RayGen’s Richard Payne at the newly opened solar and storage plant in Carwarp. Plus: Consumer power to fill coal gap. You can find previous episodes of the Solar Insiders podcast here or on your favourite podcast platform. Pylon is a proud sponsor of Solar Insiders. nextracker is a proud sponsor of…
Let’s make this pretty clear, because the Australian Energy Market Operator and the NSW government already have in the past week: The lights are not going to go out if Australia’s biggest coal generator, Eraring, closes as flagged in late 2025. But there might be other reasons to keep it going. For one, there is…
Amp Energy says it has sealed a connection agreement for a new 300MWh big battery in South Australia that will be the foundation stone of a massive solar and storage hub in the state. The deal between Amp, a global energy group backed by private investment firm Carlyle, said the deal for the 150MW, two…
A new upper-end rooftop solar panel has landed on the Australian market, with the local arm of global solar electrification outfit 1komma5° announcing it can now start taking orders for its Europe-made Full Black module. 1komma5°, which last year set up shop in Australia after taking a controlling stake in NSW-based PV and battery outfit…
Queensland-based research efforts to cut the cost of flexible perovskite solar cell production using lower cost, more abundant alternatives and more efficient manufacturing methods have won federal government funding, as part of Australia’s renewed pursuit of ultra low-cost solar. The research and development collaboration is made up of Western Australian graphene supplier First Graphene and…
Melbourne headquartered Allume Energy has secured a $US1.5 million bridge investment from two American investors which will help the company bring rooftop solar to over 4,000 residents across the south-eastern United States. Allume Energy, which has developed the world’s only technology for connecting apartments and multi-unit residences to rooftop solar, helps customers of its SolShare…
Genex Power says its newly Bouldercombe Battery is already “sopping up” some of the negatively priced energy from cheap solar power flooding the Queensland grid, despite still being in the commissioning phase. At its annual results briefing, the stock exchange listed Genex said the 50MW/100MWh Bouldercombe battery project near Rockhampton is energised and going through…
Australia’s rooftop solar market has hit a new high for the year, after 295MW of total monthly installations delivered the best August on record and put the national trend back on the up – and within striking distance of the market’s best year ever, in 2021. The latest small-scale solar data from industry analysts SunWiz…
The big stash of savings Australians put away during the Covid-19 pandemic is running out and people are increasingly turning to specialised finance providers to pay for rooftop solar, batteries and electrification. But that isn’t putting new – or existing – solar households off investing in clean and efficient energy, says Brighte CEO Katherine McConnell….
Amid all the song and dance over the market operator’s 10-year reliability outlook, and the revelations of the stunning incompetence of the federal government owned Snowy Hydro, it’s not surprising that the march of rooftop solar barely got a mention. On Wednesday, the Australian Energy Market Operator revealed two fascinating graphs that underline not just…
Chinese solar manufacturing giant Trina Solar announced this week that it has begun mass production of its Vertex N 700W+ series solar modules, marking what it says is the start of the “PV 7.0 Era”. Trina Solar’s Vertex N 700W+ series offers module efficiency up to 22.5% and it says they are the first TOPCon…
RayGen has officially opened its solar and long-duration thermal storage plant in partnership with AGL, set to add 4MW of