Oceania

US energy purchases Australian prefab PV system manufacturer
AES, among the globe's largest power business, has made a critical financial investment in Sydney-based prefabricated solar system maker 5B.
Jul 31, 2020 // Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, AES, Andrés Gluski
Techniques to stop overvoltage-induced inverter disconnections
Australian scientists have actually recognized 7 methods to avoid PV losses when overvoltage-induced inverter disconnections happen. The techniques consist of battery storage space, responsive power inverters, export restrictions, distribution static synchronous compensators, the replacement of old conductors in power grids, load reconfiguration, as well as dynamic voltage repair.
Jul 31, 2020 // Technology, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Inverters, Australia, Oceania
AES Invests in 5B; Aims to Accelerate Transition to Solar Energy
The AES Corporation has made a critical investment of around USD 8.6 million in 5B, a solar technology trendsetter based in Sydney, Australia.
Jul 30, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, AES, International, 5B, AES 5B, Andrés Gluski, Chris McGrath
Grid constraints intimidate to cut greater than 1 GW of solar projects in North Queensland
The north Australian region today included 9 solar plants to the two currently intimidated-- along with a wind farm-- with having their output stopped under specific problems.
Jul 29, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, Australia, pv power plants, AEMO, Oceania
Combining solar cell and also liquid battery generates long-lasting solar storage
Solar cell scientists at the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales dealing with chemists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States have actually developed a highly efficient and also durable solar-flow battery, which is a way to create, shop, and redeliver eco-friendly electrical power from the sun in one device.
Jul 27, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Australia, solar cell, perovskite, Oceania, Anita Ho-Baillie, Wenjie Li
Western Australia introduces AU$ 55m solar, storage investment in post-pandemic kickstarter
Western Australia will certainly spend AU$ 56.3 million (US$ 40.11 million) in solar power as part of a new renewable resource plan developed to kickstart the state's economy complying with the influences of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Jul 27, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, climate council, Oceania, covid-19, green recovery, Mark McGowan
Redflow batteries to include VPP abilities
Australia-based battery vendor Redflow has joined forces with smart-energy systems specialist carbonTRACK to include online nuclear power plant functionality to its flow batteries.
Jul 24, 2020 // Storage, Australia, Oceania, Redflow, Tim Harris, Spiros Livadaras
Pressing the boundaries of PV cell level of sensitivity
Researchers in Australia and also the United States have taken care of to 'upconvert' light from below the silicon bandgap right into high-energy light that can be caught by silicon solar cells.
Jul 23, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, USA, Australia, Oceania, North America, Tim Schmidt, Jared Cole, Elham Gholizadeh
Native shrubs and also photovoltaic panels operating in tandem in South Australia
State energy SA Water is partnering with an ecological company to're- vegetate' almost a ton of native plants under a huge scale solar arrays. Underneath the ground-mounted PV jobs, native greenery must return to the previously farming land, and the resulting scrub is expected to secure panels from dirtying.
Jul 21, 2020 // Technology, Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, PV panel, SA Water
Australian rooftop PV might face grid restraints
The capability to feed electrical energy from roof PV selections into Australia's circulation network may be seriously restricted in the future, as installments appear most likely to surpass assumptions. A Cornwall Insight projection sees some 24.45 GW of rooftop solar to be included with 2030-- a rate that increases the demand for a distribution-level market and may see connections cut in the future.
Jul 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, Australia, rooftop PV, Oceania, Ben Cerini
Environment-friendly hydrogen to get to price parity with grey hydrogen in 2030
IHS Markit's most current report checks out a wave of new financial investments in large-scale projects. Economic climates of scale as well as technical renovations, in addition to renewables implementation, might make eco-friendly hydrogen price-competitive with grey as well as blue hydrogen.
Jul 16, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Market Research, Australia, IHS Markit, hydrogen, Oceania, WORLD, Simon Blakey, Catherine Robinson
IBC solar cell with 25.0% performance
Australian researchers have exposed a new cell that improves an earlier gadget with 24.4% performance. They accomplished this 0.6% boost in performance by applying an oxide-nitride-oxide passivation pile, maximizing the diffusion and call area fraction, as well as enhancing texturing with monoTEX surfactant.
Jul 14, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, solar cell, Oceania, efficiency, IBC
NSW to go 'also larger' with 2nd, 8GW renewable resource area
Plans to establish an 8GW renewable energy zone (REZ) in New South Wales, the Australian state's 2nd, have actually been billed as the largest dedication to clean power in its background.
Jul 13, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Policy, Australia, Oceania, grid, new south wales, policy, Matt Kean, rez, regulation
Canberra project REVS up Australia's vehicle-to-grid readiness
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency is putting US$ 1.66 million into a vehicle-to-grid test to show how electrical automobiles can provide grid supplementary services. The REVS research study and also market consortium wishes to show how EVs can create income for fleet owners.
Jul 8, 2020 // Storage, Transport, Solar to Fuel, Australia, Oceania, ARENA, Darren Miller
Australia's steel masters engineer 2 energy-storage breakthroughs
Energy storage space remains in high demand, to aid take care of an expanding proportion of renewable resource in worldwide electrical energy grids, to complimentary off-grid neighborhoods from the tyranny of diesel, and to make it possible for the aspirations of individuals not yet attached to a power supply. These 2 promising modern technologies have reached essential milestones ...
Jul 7, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Australia, Oceania, Guoxiu Wang, Kondo-Francois Aguey-Zinsou, Alan Yu