Weeks after the Australian Energy Regulator revealed price hikes for Ausgrid, Essential, Endeavour, Energex and SAPN customers, retailers AGL and Origin have announced their own price rises. [Read more…]

This is interesting: not just a new module technology from Trina Solar, but one with a pathway to 30% cell efficiency.

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RayGen is building a concentrator-style PV power plant in Victoria with thermal storage, and incredible claimed efficiency, and they’ve picked Alfa Laval to provide the heat exchangers. [Read more…]

Transgrid has cited the transition to renewables as one reason for launching a multi-million-dollar training initiative. [Read more…]

A few months later than originally expected, Ausnet Services’ $10 million Phillip Island battery was formally opened over the weekend by Victoria’s energy and resources minister Lily D’Ambrosio. [Read more…]

WA electricity network, Western Power and WA electricity retailer, Synergy are the latest community battery grant winners, securing $3 million to build six community batteries. [Read more…]

Charge HQ is coming out of beta, and as a consequence is introducing fees for its app. [Read more…]

Zinc-bromine flow battery specialist Redflow has signed its largest deal to date: $18 million to provide 2000 of its ZBM3 batteries to a Native American-owned microgrid in California. [Read more…]

Narrabri. There’s a community battery going in there somewhere…

Australia is awash with new community battery stories – hardly surprising, since applications under the first round of the federal government’s $120 million Community Batteries for Household Solar program, closed in April. The government grants are starting to flow.

Today, we’re bringing two new projects to your attention, in Narrabri and in the Mornington Peninsula. [Read more…]

A 108kWh battery has been installed at Healesville Community Link, as part of a microgrid trial granted nearly $2 million by the federal government. [Read more…]