Posts By Richard Chirgwin On SolarQuotes

The AEMO is taking the next steps to ensure Australia’s National Energy Market (NEM) can survive the shift to solar power and wind. [Read more…]

In June, we wrote about a security vulnerability an anonymous researcher had discovered in Enphase’s solar inverter communications gateway and installer app. [Read more…]

Now you can have solar analytics without buying a consumption meter.

The Consumer Data Right (CDR) isn’t something we’ve covered here yet, but it’s now the basis for a new product being launched by Solar Analytics: Integrated+, which the company describes as “consumption data without the meter”. [Read more…]

Dr Qinfen Gu in action with the Powder diffraction beamline

Flow batteries have long been seen as the poor cousin to the ubiquitous lithium-ion battery, trailing in energy density and charge/discharge rates. [Read more…]

Solar PV on apartment buildings is a persistent conundrum because the roof ownership is shared. [Read more…]

LG Energy Solution Australia has moved to reassure resellers caught up in its long-running battery recall that their data has not been subject to a data breach. [Read more…]

Transgrid CEO Brett Redman says bringing renewables online as quickly as possible is

“the only way to bring energy prices down”.

 

“With over 80 per cent of coal-fired capacity in NSW expected to retire and 28GW of new renewable and storage capacity coming online in the next 10 years, we must urgently accelerate the investment in all areas of the energy transition.”

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Image: Property and Development NSW

In March, we covered the launch of a big battery at Port Macquarie Base Hospital, which was installed as part of the NSW state government’s Smart Batteries for Key Government Buildings initiative. [Read more…]