25th September 2022 Ever since Australia’s wholesale energy market started going haywire, all eyes have been on the rooftop solar and home battery market looking for an uptick in installations as consumers seek to slash their consumption from an increasingly…
14th August 2022 Fortescue Metals Group has unveiled a $50 million plan to develop a regenerating battery electric iron ore train project – dubbed the Infinity Train – in partnership with Williams Advanced Engineering, the British company Fortescue it bought in…
14th May 2023 Tesla has slashed the price of the Powerwall household battery for the second time in as many months, this time by more than 10 per cent thanks to the falling price of materials and the freeing up…
3rd April 2023 BYD is on track to have its biggest-ever quarter for sales in the first quarter as it aims to becoming the best-selling brand in the world’s biggest vehicle market before the end of this year. According to…
30th March 2023 Just under 50,000 battery energy storage systems were installed in households around Australia over the course of 2022, a new annual record and a 55 per cent increase on the numbers in 2021, new data has shown.…
26th February 2023 A team at Monash University has mapped out a range of scenarios for how different households might use electricity in the future – and be affected by energy policy decisions made today – in a landmark consumer-focused…
January 30th 2023 The Australian Renewable Energy Agency says it will offer $45 million in grant funding for a ground-breaking compressed air energy storage facility to be built in a disused mine in Broken Hill. As RenewEconomy has reported, the…
19th July 2022 Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners is an Australian-founded renewable investment company that has largely sailed under the radar. But its story provides a fascinating insight into some of the political and technology drivers that are influencing the green energy…
2nd June 2022 Stand-alone power systems that bypass the grid to supply mostly renewable energy to individuals or communities have been cleared for wide-spread installation on the National Electricity Market under new rules published by the Australian Energy Market Commission…
22nd May 2022 Lower income households in the ACT can apply for a discount of up to $2,500 on the cost of installing rooftop solar, starting this week, as part of the territory government’s newly launched $50 million Home Energy…
