Australia’s energy system is changing. While there’s been a lot of talk about the size and scale of the task before us, there’s been little conversation about who – in a very practical sense – will build the energy system of the future.
Australia’s rooftop solar industry has renewed calls for a mandatory recycling scheme to deal with the growing problem of solar panel waste. Only about 10% of panels are currently recycled. The rest are stockpiled, sent overseas or dumped in landfill.
Autumn has fast emerged as a volatile and uncertain time in the National Electricity Market as unpredictable weather patterns often deliver a mixed bag of renewable energy outcomes. As the energy transition trundles on, this seasonal variability is likely to remain a defining feature.
United States President Donald Trump is trying to unravel the signature climate policy of his predecessor Joe Biden, the Inflation Reduction Act, as part of a sweeping bid to dismantle the country’s climate ambition.
Australia’s battery market is booming — but not all system architectures are equally positioned to benefit.
While the discussion around Australia’s climate progress is typically hung in a frame of panic or hurried pessimism, encouraging new data shows that the country has seen some significant progress and is taking some long strides in its green energy transition.
Solcast, a DNV company, reports that irradiance across large portions of eastern Australia fell by up to 20% below the seasonal norm in autumn.
On the surface, Queensland’s new government is doing exactly what it pledged before winning office in October – repealing the state’s ambitious renewable energy targets and cancelling a huge pumped hydro project near Mackay.
A massive increase in solar power generation capacity is already putting Australia on the fast track to a 100% renewable energy future.
Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere, powering everything from consumer electronics to electric vehicles, residential PV storage systems, and, more recently, mitigating curtailment in large-scale wind and solar power plants. EVs are driving large-scale demand for Li-ion batteries which will result in substantial volumes of spent batteries in the near future.
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