Oceania

New white paper vouches for Tasmania's deep storage space capacity
Brand-new evaluation highlights the demand of, and also Tasmania's capacity for, deep storage space to support Australia's future power market. Tasmania is figured out to come to be the Battery of the Nation.
Apr 24, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Australia, Oceania, Steve Davy, Guy Barnett
Restraints on Australian solar ranches raised complying with 'massive' sector initiative
5 big solar ranches in Australia that have actually run under grid restraints given that September 2019 have actually had those limitations raised, complying with the rollout of brand-new inverter setups.
Apr 24, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, inverter, SMA, Oceania, curtailment, grid stability, edify, Alex Wonhas, wirsol
New England Solar Ranch, New South Wales
New England Solar Farm is a suggested 720MW photovoltaic (PV) solar energy project to be created in the state of New South Wales (NSW), Australia.
Apr 23, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, pv power plants, Oceania
Australian scientists take solar home windows to the following degree
The building-integrated PV gadgets have actually taken a large jump ahead on the back of a collaboration in between Australian researchers as well as a significant glass maker which will certainly examine using semi-transparent solar cells in business applications, possibly reinventing structure style.
Apr 21, 2020 // BIPV, Technology, Australia, solar cells, perovskite, Oceania, Jacek Jasieniak, Anthony Chesman
Dropping power rates can profit mega-sized solar as well as wind projects
The Covid-19 pandemic will certainly produce a "ideal tornado" for Australia's wholesale power market, as reduced need integrates with reduced gas rates as well as the appointing of large solar as well as wind projects to dispirit power rates, according to a record by Melbourne-based working as a consultant RepuTex.
Apr 20, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, covid-19
A non-flammable lithium steel battery
Scientists from Deakin University in Australia declare their battery chemistry is based upon a brand-new course of electrolyte product which brings no danger of unchecked thermal occasions and also stands for a sensible option to rechargeable lithium-ion batteries.
Apr 16, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Australia, Oceania, lithium, Patrick Howlett
Australian researchers assist unlock capacity of wearable as well as flexible solar
Australian scientists have actually aided accomplish an advancement in the manufacturing of reliable and also flexible solar energy products, which might supply a path to wearable solar energy.
Apr 15, 2020 // Technology, Japan, Australia, solar cells, Asia, Oceania, flexible, wearable solar, Wenchao Huang, RIKEN
Tesla huge battery development gets to landmark
Network link jobs have actually been finished on Neoen's updated Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia. The 50MW/64.5 MWh development will certainly offer an Australian-first massive demo of the capacity for battery storage space to give the supporting inertia solutions that are crucial to the future combination of renewable resource.
Apr 14, 2020 // Storage, TESLA, Australia, neoen, Oceania
NT Solar setups drop as FiT reduced by 66%.
The Northern Territory Government specified freely that it would certainly money its brand-new home and also organisation battery system by greatly decreasing the feed-in toll paid to brand-new roof generators. The instant outcome appears to have actually been an instantaneous hideaway from roof solar installment that intimidates NT solar companies.
Apr 13, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Tariffs, Policy, FiT, Australia, Oceania, Leigh Fowkes, Katherine Solar
Beam! You're on photoluminescence cam!
Scientists in Australia and also China made use of intensity-modulated photoluminescence to map the collection resistance of perovskite solar cells with a strategy which might even more understanding of the reasons for instability problems in such gadgets.
Apr 9, 2020 // Technology, Manufacturing News, China, Australia, solar cells, Asia, perovskite, Oceania
Australian scientists boost tidy hydrogen electrolysis
Griffith University researchers have actually opened a catalytic procedure to boost the malfunction of water right into hydrogen and also oxygen and also bring Australia an action nearer tidy, reliable hydrogen gas.
Apr 9, 2020 // Technology, Storage, Solar to Fuel, Australia, hydrogen, Oceania, Yuhai Dou
Australia to host 600 MW battery
French renewable resource developer Neoen intends to create a large battery storage space system near the Australian city of Geelong that will certainly overshadow its biggest project to day, the 100MW/129MWh Tesla huge battery in South Australia.
Apr 7, 2020 // Storage, Australia, neoen, Oceania
Northern Territory goes big on battery storage
Batteries are becoming effective enablers of renewable resource as grids Australia large come to be tested by the high infiltration of renewable resource. The Northern Territory is buying battery storage space little and also huge, to catch the overflow of its extraordinary renewable energy and also reroute it for the advantage of customers.
Apr 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Michael Gunner, Australia, Oceania, Coronavirus, covid-19
New Zealand might get to 6 GW of solar by 2050
National utility Transpower claimed that solar might take a 9.3% share of the nation's generation mix by the center of the century. Nevertheless, genuine development is just anticipated to take place from 2035, with dispersed generation anticipated to make up greater than 80% of overall mounted PV.
Apr 6, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, New Zealand, Oceania, Transpower
Australian rooftop solar surged to record highs before lockdown
Study by Green Energy Markets reveals that the Australian roof PV market stayed healthy and balanced throughout the very first 3 months of 2020. According to STC information, greater than 300,000 roof installments were signed up in the month, for an overall of near to 250 MW of capability. And afterwards came Covid-19.
Apr 3, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Rooftop PV, Australia, rooftop PV, Oceania, Green Energy Markets, Tristan Edis