2024

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has tapped United States-headquartered energy equipment manufacturer GE Vernova to deliver an integrated battery energy storage system solution for the 250 MW / 1,000 MWh second stage of its Supernode project being developed in southeast Queensland.

The Australian government will in November open applications for a $50 million funding program that is to support the development of more diverse solar PV, hydrogen electrolyser and battery supply chains in the Indo-Pacific region.

A solar installation company has been convicted and fined $40,000 after one of its workers was injured when he fell about 10 metres through an asbestos roof in Victoria’s southwest.

Chinese solar giant Trina Solar has unveiled plans for a 660 MW / 2,640 MWh battery energy storage facility in Western Australia that it says will enhance grid stability and support the state’s increasing renewable energy demands.

What happens to a solar PV module after its expected 25-year operational life? With about 2 TW of rooftop and utility-scale PV already deployed worldwide, and a large number of them being retired before operating for 15 years, the amount of PV modules being discarded is growing every year.

The International Energy Agency’s latest report warns that failing to support integration at the point of deployment could jeopardise up to 15% of solar and wind projects by 2030. This shortfall would reduce their combined share of the global electricity mix by 5%.

Spanish PV company Soltec and Aplitop have partnered to develop a computer-aided design plug-in application aimed at simplifying the planning process and reducing earth-moving operations, measurements, and the relocation of solar trackers in ground-mounted PV projects.

Victorian commercial solar installation specialist Energy Aware has designed a unique rooftop solar system for agribusiness group Elders on their 35,000 square metre wool handling hub outside Melbourne.

In a laboratory setting, researchers from two Sydney-based universities are working to dramatically reduce time to anneal pervoskite cells, paving the way to replace toxic disposable battery sensors with a sustainable power source.

It took eight years of field measurements for researchers at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany to estimate the usable capacity of home battery energy storage systems and develop a dataset covering 106 system years and 14 billion datapoints. Their key finding was that home battery systems lose about two to three percentage points of usable capacity per year on average, meaning good news for the industry as most warranties in the market can be met with the implementation of capacity reserves.