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  • Huge turbine parts complete 630km truck journey to W.A. wind, solar microgrid

    Huge turbine parts complete 630km truck journey to W.A. wind, solar microgrid

    Australia’s first mining sector project to combine wind, solar and batteries in one microgid is starting to take shape in Western Australia’s northern goldfields region.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Dec 5, 2019
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  • Lord Howe Island to get solar and battery microgrid, no wind turbines
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    Lord Howe Island to get solar and battery microgrid, no wind turbines

    A microgrid comprising 1.2MW solar, 3.2MWh battery storage to go ahead soon on Lord Howe Island, two years after a controversial wind turbine ban brought the project to a halt.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Oct 10, 2019
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  • Did anti-wind ideology cause Coalition to ban Lord Howe Island turbines?
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    Did anti-wind ideology cause Coalition to ban Lord Howe Island turbines?

    New documents reveal that then environment minister Josh Frydenberg went against department advice when he decided to block two wind turbines on Lord Howe Island.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Sep 18, 2019
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  • Wind, solar and battery microgrid at W.A. gold mine an “Australian first”
    Renewables

    Wind, solar and battery microgrid at W.A. gold mine an “Australian first”

    A remote Western Australia gold mine has won $13.5m in ARENA funding to add 18MW of wind power to a 23MW solar, battery and gas microgrid.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Jun 20, 2019
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  • How Horizon Power is using solar to slash its fossil fuel subsidies
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    How Horizon Power is using solar to slash its fossil fuel subsidies

    Solar plant at Meekatharra eases crippling cost burden of diesel generation, as “cloud predictive” technology allows W.A. gold town to go 80% solar at times without a battery.
    Sophie Vorrath
    May 31, 2019
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  • Daintree edges closer to Australia first renewable-only microgrid, with help from green hydrogen

    Daintree edges closer to Australia first renewable-only microgrid, with help from green hydrogen

    Queensland’s Daintree region could soon host Australian-first solar to hydrogen microgrid, with federal funding tipped make the 100% renewable project shovel ready.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Apr 5, 2019
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  • Coalition to replace poles and wires with “affordable, reliable” renewable microgrids

    Replacing poles and wires with renewables and storage on parts of Australia’s grid could “save hundreds of millions of dollars,” deliver more reliable supply, says energy minister.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Mar 28, 2019
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  • Senec to provide home batteries for W.A. solar + storage microgrid – Australia’s largest

    Senec to provide home batteries for W.A. solar + storage microgrid – Australia’s largest

    German-based Senec chosen to supply home battery systems for Horizon Power’s solar and storage microgrid in coastal Pilbara town of Onslow.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Mar 18, 2019
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  • Horizon Power swaps poles and wires for solar and storage
    Solar

    Horizon Power swaps poles and wires for solar and storage

    W.A. utility to decommission 54km of poles and wires and replace with 13 Micro Power Systems combining solar, battery storage and a back-up diesel generator.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Mar 7, 2019
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  • Australia’s largest behind the meter battery system charges up at Monash

    Australia’s largest behind the meter battery system charges up at Monash

    Victoria’s Monash Uni installs Australia’s largest commercial behind-the-meter battery storage system – a 1MWh hybrid system combining vanadium flow and lithium-ion.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Nov 21, 2018
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  • Microgrid funding to help Yackandandah reach 100% renewables

    Microgrid funding to help Yackandandah reach 100% renewables

    Victorian government backs microgrid in Victoria’s north-east that will trial the use of solar, storage and smart controls at the grid edge.
    Sophie Vorrath
    Oct 19, 2018
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  • Engie to build world’s largest microgrid in Republic of Palau
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    Engie to build world’s largest microgrid in Republic of Palau

    Palau hopes to kick its diesel energy dependence with the addition of 35MW of solar and 45MWh of storage.
    Joshua S Hill
    Oct 18, 2018
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