Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Extreme storm activity, strong winds, lightning and resulting fire danger and falling trees caused damage to the electricity network in Victoria, Australia, while also causing access issues for repair crews to damaged powerlines and critical infrastructure.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has announced rule updates to the National Electricity Market, aimed at mitigating the risk of power outage as the country undergoes a transition from aging coal-fired generation to increased reliance on renewable energy sources. hours at the Market Price Cap by the same date.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

From powering the servers and storage equipment to cooling infrastructures, data centres have a large appetite for electricity. Today, it is estimated that data centres account for 1% of world’s electricity consumption and 5% of global greenhouse gas emissions. And with IDC forecasting a 17.5% In 2019, they awarded AU$9.6

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has implemented major reforms to Western Australia’s Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM), with grid modernisation a key focus point. Said Ryan in a statement: “Only a decade ago, more than 90% of all electricity used in WA’s main power system was generated by burning coal and gas.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Once operational, the project will store and dispatch 1GWh of electricity, supporting peak demand on the power grid and providing power to approximately 70,000 homes for one day. The renewable energy developer and fund manager purchased the project from Firm Power, a battery energy storage systems (BESS) developer.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

It helps that it's relatively easy to retool existing monofacial module production facilities to manufacture bifacial modules, which provides supply certainty should the market demand the product. The value proposition. Nevertheless, risk factors exist, and they could hinder the global adoption of bifacial solar modules.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The research grant from the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment, and Facilities scheme will be used to build a state-of-the-art research infrastructure that is capable of precise, real-time monitoring of important electrical parameters. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The battery will be used to connect renewable energy to the grid, storing wind and solar generated during the day and alleviating congestion stress at periods of peak demand on the power system. The Collie battery will be the biggest in Western Australia (WA) providing 500MW with 2,000MWh of storage. billion ($1.8 billion ($1.8 ” .

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 31, 2023

billion) to expand and modernise electricity grids in Perth, the South West and in the North West Pilbara region. Upgrading the SWIS and NWIS networks The SWIS is WA’s main electricity network and serves more than 1.1 million residential and business customers in Perth and across the South West.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

“The project will use 75kW solar rooftop PVs with residents within Montreal Commons able to sell any excess solar electricity they generate back to an existing 670kWh on-site battery using Powerledger’s energy trading platform,” explains co-founder and chairman Dr Jemma Green.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

We’ll trace supply chains as they move from open-pit mines to self-driving electric vehicles. ” PlanetScope • Prudhoe Bay Oil Field, Alaska North Slope, Alaska, USA • July 5, 2021 Fossil fuel emissions are still rising , but demand for oil is expected to drop in the coming years. The energy hierarchy is shifting.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 26, 2022

Demand response and energy management are a crucial part of the solution to make Australia’s fast-changing electricity sector work reliably, writes Diogo Cabral, Senior Business Development at GridBeyond. Is the network ready to sustain such a huge and abrupt increase in consumption from the switch to electric? Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 17, 2022

James Bangay, head of digital at Enzen Australia, said: “The energy transition demands real-time visibility of operations and deeper real-time knowledge of the interdependence between all infrastructures.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Its aim is to support peak demand requirements and to improve the reliability of power supply for the town, which has a resident population of about 1,500 and as a popular tourist destination sees more than 100,000 visitors per year.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2022

A partnership between Australian drone manufacturer Carbonix, electricity distributor SA Power Networks and communications technology provider Nokia has been underway to bolster use of long-range UAVs in aerial inspection work and flood monitoring on remote electricity distribution network assets.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

However, with the growth of blockchain and crypto in particular around electric vehicle charging, demand is likely to increase as more and more people adopt these services and become familiar with the use of cryptocurrencies. BitPay is claimed to be the largest Bitcoin and cryptocurrency payment service provider in the world.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 27, 2022

It is being used in the majority of newly connected solar homes in South Australia for compliance with emergency backstop provisions, which demand remote disconnection in emergency situations. There’s also a growing level of dispatchable resources like pool pumps, hot water systems and electric vehicles. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 30, 2023

million) for national electricity market regions, including New South Wales, Queensland, the Australian Capital Territory and South Australia. The independent review has determined that speeding up the rollout of smart meters to 100% of households by 2030 would provide net benefits to the value of AU$507 million ($327.8

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

million) to electricity customers. The VNI upgrade will also help reduce electricity bills through more efficient sharing of generation resources between the states and enable more energy from renewable sources to enter the grid. The PACR found the VNI upgrade is expected to deliver net benefits of up to AU$268 million ($169.4

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 11, 2022

Project Symphony aims to orchestrate approximately 900 distributed resources across 500 homes and businesses into a VPP to generate and store electricity at a local level. In Western Australia, more than 1 in 3 households have rooftop solar installed, with the proportion expected to increase to 1 in 2 by 2030.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added. As energy demand is expected to rise in many regions of the world, the energy transition requires a step-change that delivers a strategic shift beyond the decarbonization of the supply side.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

An Australian project led by Intellihub will see local street side power poles turned into electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the Sydney and Hunter regions of NSW. This in turn will allow increased renewable penetration into the electric network. That equates to an extra 120,000 new EVs on our local streets each year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Whether or not the move indicates a softening of China's long term support for decarbonisation is contested, but it has highlighted how the transition away from fossil fuels is likely to lead to significant price volatility and energy security concerns, as economies battle to match supply and demand. Known unknowns.

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