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Storage

S.A. network says solar plus battery storage to cost just 15c/kWh
SAPN says price of rooftop solar and battery storage will fall to just 15c/kWh for households, less than half the cost of grid power.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 28, 2017

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Solar

A fair price for rooftop solar, part 2: Rewarding local generation
How a change in electricity market rules could support rooftop solar owners and encourage a more cost effective electricity system.
Jack Gilding

Mar 21, 2017

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Solar

A fair price for rooftop solar? Try 10-18c/kWh
In the first of a three-part series, we explain what rooftop solar is really worth when all of its benefits are taken into account.
Jack Gilding

Mar 20, 2017

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Renewables

Carnegie, Lendlease join forces to target “massive” microgrid market
Carnegie Clean Energy’s EMC and Lendlease Services ink major deal to corner Australia’s multi-billion dollar microgrid market.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 19, 2016

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Smart Energy

United Energy taps solar, storage, software to defer network upgrade
GreenSync to deliver landmark community-based demand response, energy storage project for United Energy, to avoid network upgrade on Mornington Peninsula.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 18, 2016

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Storage

AGL hints at more virtual power plants across network
AGL sees potential for more solar and battery storage-based “virtual power plants” across its network in Australia. But its enthusiasm for new technologies is still tempered by its need to protect its incumbent business.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 10, 2016

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Storage

AGL invests in world’s largest battery storage virtual power plant
AGL Energy to install 1,000 centrally controlled battery storage systems in South Australian homes and businesses with a total capacity of 7MWh – equivalent to a 5MW solar peaking plant. A foretaste of what many expect to be the energy system of the future.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 5, 2016

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Markets

Big coal generators still fear renewables, despite gas boost
EnergyAustralia earnings jump on “favourable” gas market conditions as parent company warns of “long-term challenges” from renewables.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 2, 2016

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Renewables

WA utility to lead big switch to local generation, because it’s cheaper
WA power utility Horizon is leading a big switch from centralised fossil fuel generation to local generation. The economics of past supply models are no longer competitive with current and future technology choices.
Sophie Vorrath

Jun 29, 2016

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CleanTech Bites

Rooftop solar on every Australian household “no issue at all” for grid
Leading solar researcher says argument that certain parts of Australian grid can handle limited amounts of rooftop solar is “BS”.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 26, 2016

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Victorian network signs up to help rural community go 100% renewable
Victorian network operator Powercor signs MOU to help rural town of Newstead shift to 100 renewable energy by 2021.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 15, 2016

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Policy & Planning

The coming electrification of everything
Stored electricity, increasingly derived from renewable sources, will entirely replace fossil fuels as the preferred method to power everything in our lives.
Andrew Beebe

Dec 13, 2015

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