Nearly 7,000 Victorian households have installed solar panels since the Andrews Labor Government's Solar Homes package was launched in August last year, amounting to more than $3.4 million in rebates. State energy minister Lily D'Ambrosio said on Friday that around...
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Heatwaves and Energy Supply Explained
With heatwave conditions forecast across most eastern mainland states and South Australia this week, the Australian Energy Council and Energy Networks Australia have released a fact sheet on potential impacts on the energy system. The Australian Energy Council’s...
AEES Group Signs MW Agreement with Wingara AG
Wingara Ag Ltd (ASX:WNR) has announced that it has entered into an agreement with AEES Group to Install Renewable Energy Generation aimed at reducing WNR's energy cost while meeting sustainability targets. AEES has worked with WNR installing 275 kW at the companies JC...
AEES Group to install 4MW of Solar PV with Freedom Foods
Freedom Foods Group has appointed AEES Group to Project Manage what is believed to be the country’s largest single rooftop solar power installation at our processing operations in Shepparton. The project named Project Radiant has the objective of complementing our...
GreenSync’s Decentralised Energy Exchange opening for business
A Melbourne-based, industry-leading effort to harness and manage Australia’s booming behind-the-meter energy resource has begun in earnest last week, with GreenSync’s Decentralised Energy Exchange, or deX, officially opening for business. The deX, as outlined at its...
Community Renewable Energy Scheme
A community energy project based on the south-west coast of Western Australia is offering households an opportunity to become 90 per cent renewable “for the price of a coffee a day” as part of a privately funded, potentially 6.5MW Virtual Power Plant (VPP). The...
On-farm energy grants
Agriculture Victoria has rolled out the first and second actions in the Victorian Government's $30 million Agriculture Energy Investment Plan: free on-farm energy assessments and on-farm energy grants. What’s an on-farm energy tier 1 grant? These provide support to...
NEG Modelling Disbelief
Outrage has erupted in political and energy market circles over the failure of the federal government to produce any detailed modelling for the controversial National Energy Guarantee. There has been widespread disbelief about the claims of the Energy Security Board...
Win for Tesla, batteries, EVs and smart tech in Australian grid
Tesla and other proponents of virtual power plants and demand management schemes have scored a significant win after the country’s main energy market rule maker gave its support to the idea that they can compete freely on the wholesale electricity market. The decision...
Cleaning up Our Backyard
Today, by and large and large the residential and commercial adoption of renewable of energy efficiency technologies is mainly about energy cost reduction. In the longer term however it can be argued that its about establishing a roadmap towards sustainability... The...