Smart Energy International

MARCH 19, 2024

Victoria, Australia water utility South East Water has reported surpassing its 100,000 smart meter milestone with significant benefits already recorded. In many cases, the meters detected small leaks weeks or months before they came to the surface, saving more than 1.25 million (US$3.4 million) on water bills. million (US$3.4

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

University of Wollongong Professor Willy Susilo has been awarded more than Au$400,000 (US$266,000) for research into green and sustainable energy-efficient metaverse technologies. DEWA launches Metaverse platform Technology changes in the energy sector during the pandemic and beyond. “The Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 9, 2024

During a major storm event that eventually cut power to tens of thousands of homes, a fleet of EVs was able to feed power back into Australia’s electricity grid via a V2G system, according to research from The Australian National University (ANU). They’re essentially big batteries on wheels.”

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 29, 2024

Tasmania’s energy minister Nick Duigan has reported that 70% of residential and business customers now have a smart meter. The cheapest kilowatt of energy is the one you don’t use,” said Aurora Energy CEO Nigel Clark. Minister Duigan said the uptake of aurora+ and the rollout of smart meters has been very pleasing.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 25, 2024

Smart electricity metering in Asia-Pacific is expected to grow at a rate of over 6% from 818.6 With this, the penetration rate of smart electricity meters in the region will grow from 61% in 2023 to 80% in 2029 while cumulative shipments during 2024–2029 will amount to a total of 872.7 million smart meters.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The Western Australian coastal town of Kalbarri can now be powered by a 100% renewable energy-intelligent microgrid. The microgrid, developed by the state distribution company Western Power in partnership with the power company Synergy, is comprised of 1.6MW of wind, up to 1MW of rooftop solar and a 5MW/4.5MWh storage battery.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced funding for Intellihub in a virtual power plant (VPP) project to leverage a network of 2 million smart meters and interface with over 140,000 customer energy resources for optimised load control. On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has announced AU$9.75

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 11, 2023

New South Wales utility Endeavour Energy has been granted a sandbox trial waiver to upgrade 5,600 smart meters. The proposal is to upgrade around 5,600 smart meters in parts of greater western Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Southern Highlands and the Illawarra region of New South Wales.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 4, 2024

The Australia Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has issued a draft rule to start accelerating the deployment of smart meters from July 2024. The draft rule follows the March decision of the Commission to fast-track the process, to achieve a full rollout of smart meters across the country’s national electricity market by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 5, 2022

As part of a trial, the Australian company Jemena is using Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) advanced image capture technology to determine whether overhead powerlines across its electricity network require maintenance. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 20, 2024

Drone manufacturer and solutions provider Carbonix has become the first Australian company to fly its drones Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLoS) completing a mission with SA Power Networks to inspect 150km of powerlines in remote South Australia. We’re thrilled to have partnered with them to achieve this Australian first.”

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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

AUGUST 30, 2023

All Australian energy customers would receive a smart meter by 2030, along with better information, protections and data in a new suite of rollout reforms proposed by the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC).

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, has put a vehicle to grid (V2G) virtual power plant (VPP) into operation. The project makes use of aggregated and managed bi-directional EV charging in support of the university’s efforts towards fleet electrification, microgrid operations and participation in the wholesale energy market.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 22, 2022

The project, under way with Perth-based property developer OP Properties, is a 39 apartment building in Fremantle, Western Australia, in which residents will live low carbon through the use of solar panels and battery storage along with Powerledger’s power trading technology to deliver a 50% offset to the building strata levies.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has put forward recommendations to drive 100% smart meter uptake in Australia by 2030, as part of a suite of reforms aiming to put customers at the heart of the transition to net zero. Victoria has already achieved universal uptake of smart meters and Tasmania is well on its way.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at an investment round for Neara, an Australian company that has developed a platform that uses AI to help utilities design networks, enhance wildfire and vegetation management programmes and bring renewable projects online faster. million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

Hitachi Energy has been selected by Marinus Link Pty Ltd (MLPL) to supply a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) project in Australia, which will augment the connection between the mainland and Tasmania’s grid. Clean hydropower can then feed the mainland grid when it is needed most, acting as a large battery for the nation.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Shell Energy’s ‘Commercialising Smart Energy Hubs’ project will recruit at least 40 commercial and industrial (C&I) customer sites to demonstrate flexible demand capacity. On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced AUS$9.1 million ($5.7 million ($19.7 million) in total.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Enel X Australia has secured a contract from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) to provide 120MW of flexible demand capacity to the Western Australia wholesale energy market. The VPP aggregates the energy savings of these participants, providing additional capacity to the grid when required.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 27, 2022

The acquisition is expected to unlock gigawatts of behind the meter renewable generation and consumer flexibility. The acquisition brings together Australia and New Zealand smart metering Intellihub’s advanced smart metering platform with GreenSync’s cloud-based distributed energy resource interoperability software deX.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Emerging electricity and gas supplier Telstra Energy has deployed Fluence’s AI-powered IQ bidding application. Both Murra Warra 1 and Emerald Solar Park have long-term power purchase agreements to supply clean energy to Telstra Energy and their offtake partners. Have you read?

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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 5, 2024

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has announced a vital reform in network planning to make it easier for households and businesses to utilise their customer energy resources (CER), such as household batteries and EVs, to lower energy bills and feed energy back into the grid.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 12, 2022

UL, renewable energy modelling software developer, announced the release of HOMER Front. The licensable web-based software platform will enable designing and optimising of complex utility-scale energy storage systems (ESS) — whether standalone or in combination with solar or wind energy.

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Bidgely

JANUARY 27, 2020

For IDC Energy Insights, this effort rests on an analyst team that stretches from Europe to Asia, Oceania and North America. With customer expectations largely formed by digital-native, customer-centric brands from outside the energy industry, it’s imperative that utilities deliver an experience that measures up.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 13, 2022

The loan’s pricing conditions are tied to Endeavour Energy achieving a set of agreed sustainability performance targets. The sustainability linked loan, the first to an Australian electricity distribution network provider, is worth Au$920 million (US$684 million) over five years. Endeavour Energy supplies power to over 2.6

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 9, 2024

Together the two utilities deliver electricity to around 1.27 With population growth, home electrification and the rise of electric vehicles, the need for grid flexibility has become increasingly important. million homes and businesses in Melbourne’s central business district and inner suburbs and about two-thirds of regional Victoria.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

million) in contracts to deliver the new battery energy storage systems in Kwinana and Collie, together totalling 2.8GWh in storage capacity. Additionally, US-based Power Electronics will deliver 72 inverters for the Kwinana battery and 160 inverters for the Collie battery. China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. billion ($1.8

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. We’ll trace supply chains as they move from open-pit mines to self-driving electric vehicles.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Global energy shortages and a recent spike in oil prices to a three-year high above $80 a barrel, have dimmed hopes that governments will announce bold new plans to rapidly ditch fossil fuels at the October 31st to November 12th summit. With just a few days to go until COP26 kicks off, her pessimism is widely shared. goal within grasp.

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