Sophie Vorrath
Sophie is editor of One Step Off The Grid and deputy editor of its sister site, Renew Economy. Sophie has been writing about clean energy for more than a decade.
Price and local distributor named as Energizer prepares to launch its 6.1kWh Homepower battery in Australia and globally.
Battery
Graphs
micro-grids
Research Groups, Institutes and Universities
Smart Energy
Storage
Tesla
University of Queensland
Graph of the Day: UQ Tesla battery revenue continues to exceed expectations
New data shows September has delivered UQ Powerpack battery system's second highest revenue to date. But there's more to the story...
Markets
News & Commentary
Renewables
Solar
Wind
Infrastructure Capital joins Engie in major renewables investment push
Infrastructure Capital Group acquires 75% share in major solar and wind investment platform with French renewables giant Engie and Japanese trading house Mitsui.
Markets
Renewables
Transgrid
Utilities
Elecnor wins $1.9 billion contract to build NSW side of new link to South Australia
Elecnor and Clough joint venture EnergySecure tapped to deliver TransGrid portion of NSW-S.A. interconnector.
Battery
CSIRO
Research Groups, Institutes and Universities
Smart Energy
Solar
Storage
Energy Renaissance names Hunter region for Australia’s first battery “gigafactory”
Energy Renaissance says it will start building $28m, solar powered Renaissance One lithium-ion battery plant within weeks in Tomago.
Renewables
Wind
Dundonnell wind farm powers back up, still looking for cause of fallen turbine blade
Tilt Renewables says Dundonnell wind farm gradually resuming production as investigations continue into what caused a blade to fall from one of its massive turbines.
Governments
News & Commentary
one step
Queensland Government
Rooftop PV
Solar
How “flexible exports” could convince more big energy users to install rooftop solar
An Energy Queensland network trial focusing on accommodating more, and smarter commercial solar has quietly shown the way on how it may work for consumers.
Battery
micro-grids
News & Commentary
one step
Renewables
Smart Energy
Solar
Storage
Solar and battery microgrid completed at Granny Smith gold mine
Ground-breaking solar, battery and gas microgrid built to power remote W.A. gold mine is complete and cutting fossil fuel consumption by up to 13%.
Australian Federal Government
Governments
Nuclear
Renewables
Two is a crowd: Why renewables and nuclear don’t mix, even to cut emissions
New research warns nuclear and renewables should not be combined in any policy programs for effective energy system decarbonisation.
A 1MW solar plant installed on a wastewater plant in Auckland marks New Zealand's first ever floating solar array and first megawatt-scale solar project.
