CleanCo pilots 1.5 MW sodium sulphur battery
Australian electricity generator CleanCo is piloting Australia’s largest grid-connected sodium sulphur battery at the Swanbank Clean Energy Hub project, 45 kilometres southwest of Brisbane.
Electric mine-site graders to be powered by Fortescue Zero battery system
Canadian-headquartered underground heavy vehicle manufacturer MacLean, will deliver 30 electric powered graders to Australian resources giant Fortescue’s Western Australian mining operations toward a shared goal of Real Zero emissions by 2040.
Flow Power plans DC-coupled battery to boost solar flexibility
Australian renewables developer and electricity retailer Flow Power will install a 3 MW DC-coupled battery energy storage system alongside the recently completed Cootamundra Solar Farm in New South Wales in a move designed to improve the flexibility of the facility.
Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations
Western Australian battery technology company Altech Batteries has announced its first Cerenergy ABS60 salt-based battery energy storage system prototype is online and operating successfully across a range of temperatures, confirming its thermal stability and commercial viability.
Clenergy offers mounting solution for remote solar install
Solar mounting solutions provider Clenergy has deployed two of its fixed-tilt ground-mounted products as part of a 32 kW PV system that is helping power a mobile communication antenna on a remote mountain peak in Tasmania.
How will PV’s intellectual-property scuffles shake out?
Lawyers are doing brisk business as tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) solar technology moves into the mainstream. A series of patent infringement cases have been launched in the United States and Europe and their impacts are reverberating through the marketplace. How likely is it that winners will emerge?
BIPV for prefab net-zero housing trials in Australia
ClearVue Technologies, an Australia-based supplier of smart building materials, is providing a combination of its building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) technology and solar cladding panels in a prefabricated house trial trial.
Understanding the dangers of arc flash in solar, battery storage systems
In this pv magazine Webinar, we will review different electrical hazards present in renewable energy systems and compare various methods to mitigate them as well as examine real-world examples using arc-flash relays to increase system reliability.
Rooftop solar surges ahead in Australia with 1.3 GW installed in H1 2024
Australian households and small businesses continue to spearhead the nation’s renewable energy transition with a new report revealing that 1.3 GW of rooftop solar capacity was installed during the first half of 2024.
Trina plans 2,640 MWh big battery for Western Australia
China’s Trina Solar has submitted plans to build 660 MW/2,640 battery storage facility at Kemerton in an industrial zone south of Perth, Western Australia.
