System architecture defining brand success in booming battery retrofit market
Australia’s battery market is booming — but not all system architectures are equally positioned to benefit.
Solar electroluminescence image noise filtered by new deep learning method
University of New South Wales researchers have developed a simplified residual network-based architecture method to filter out noise from electroluminescence images of solar modules.
Voltavate to power up battery tech with Artesian backing
Australian battery tech startup Voltavate has secured $850,000 in an oversubscribed pre-seed funding round led by $1.22 billion global alternative investment management firm Artesian.
ACEnergy secures connection approval for 250 MW battery
Australian-owned renewables developer ACEnergy has received connection approval for a four-hour capacity grid-forming battery energy storage project to be built in northwest Victoria.
NZ developer achieves South Island first with fifth solar farm
New Zealand renewables developer Lodestone Energy is expanding its footprint with construction starting on its first utility-scale solar farm on the country’s South Island.
Wins worth celebrating for Australia’s climate progress
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.
Report reveals Sydney potential for 21 GW renewable energy zone
A new report calls for mandated solar installations on all new residential and industrial buildings in Sydney to help transform the city into an urban renewable energy zone capable of generating three quarters of its annual energy needs.
Scientists build 29.5%-efficiency all-perovskite tandem solar cells
An international team of researchers used a novel interfacial treatment to improve the performance of perovskite solar cells across a range of narrow and wide bandgap single junction, tandem, and mini-module samples. An all-perovskite tandem solar cell demonstrated its use with a certified efficiency of 29.5%.
Sungrow unveils PowerTitan 3.0 battery with 684 Ah cell
Sungrow has launched the PowerTitan 3.0 battery energy storage system, built around a 684 Ah cell and a fully liquid-cooled silicon carbide power conversion system.
NSW pairs increased VPP incentive with national battery rebate
The New South Wales government has ended its home battery installation rebate, announcing it will instead provide up to $1,500 to households and small businesses that install a battery energy storage system and connect it to a virtual power plant.
