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Vicinity Powering Up Battery Storage Pilot For Shopping Centres

Vicinity Centres - battery storage

Building on its substantial shopping centre solar power street cred, work has commenced on the first onsite battery storage systems for Vicinity Centres. [Read more…]

Dumb Solar Shutdown Device: Queensland Goes It Alone On GSD

Generation Signalling Device (GSD) - Queensland solar shutdown strategy

Queensland is taking the lead in going backwards on solar power, with Energy Queensland mandating a new device, a few new acronyms, a new layer of complexity for installers and a new expense for owners of some new solar power systems. [Read more…]

WA Domestic Gas Supply Disruptions “Unprecedented”

Chevron Wheatstone gas plant failure

A gas plant failure has added further strain to Western Australia’s domestic gas supplies; but the McGowan Government says everything is under control. [Read more…]

How Solar Can Help Small Business Avoid Crippling ‘Large-User’ Tariffs

Commercial solar power and small business

This is essential reading if you’re a business owner who doesn’t like paying through the nose for electricity.

The benefits of having commercial solar are clear to most, but sometimes there are other reasons that aren’t so obvious unless pointed out. In this case, if you’re a business owner, it’s not just the solar power that creates the savings. [Read more…]

Ultra Low Cost Solar R&D Funding Winners Announced

Ultra Low Cost Solar Power Funding

A baker’s dozen of Australian projects have each been granted big grants as part of an effort to further drive down the cost of solar power – and considerably. [Read more…]

Engie Readying For Yass Energy Park Project

Yass Energy Park

Engie ANZ is gearing up for a proposed large-scale solar + battery project outside Yass in the Southern Tablelands region of New South Wales. [Read more…]

More Support For NSW Pumped Hydro Projects

Phoenix Pumped Hydro project

Another pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project has received millions of dollars from the NSW Government to progress feasibility studies. [Read more…]

How To Upgrade To A Bigger Solar Power System

How to upgrade a solar power system

If you want to increase the size of your existing rooftop solar system, you typically have 4 options for upgrading: [Read more…]

Bowen’s Community And Big Battery Blitz: More Details

Community and big batteries - Chris Bowen

Buzz about batteries was again stirred up over the weekend by Federal Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen. Here’s what’s happening. [Read more…]

Work On New Zealand’s First Big Battery Starts Soon

Ruakākā big battery - New Zealand

New Zealand’s Meridian Energy announced yesterday it will kick off construction of its 100MW / 200MWh Ruakākā Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) project in the first quarter of next year. [Read more…]

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