The Yallourn Power Station in the Latrobe Valley will be closing four years earlier than expected, in 2028, to be replaced by a grid-scale battery. The 1,480MW brown coal plant is deemed to be one of Australia’s dirtiest power plants. The plant was built in the 1970sand has been prone to outages in recent years.…
Can I replace my old lead Acid Batteries with Lithium? To answer your question – YES you can! Do you have an off grid solar system and your old lead acid batteries, gel batteries or maybe even some old saltwater batteries (oh dear) and they really are not performing as they used too? I spoke…
Advisory group Infrastructure Australia has earmarked a $22 billion solar-plus-storage project, which will supply 20% of Singapore’s energy demands, as a priority initiative. This solar-plus-storage project is one of 44 initiatives on Infrastructure Australia’s priority list, which totals $59 billion. These projects are being highlighted as significant in order to attract public and private investment.…
As we all know by now, battery storage for wind and solar power is playing an ever-larger role in Australia’s move away from fossil fuels. In order to help this transition, the federal government has started an initiative to boost the processing of the minerals needed to build batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Lithium-ion…
The Yallourn Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley is to close in mid-2028, four years earlier than originally scheduled. A grid-scale battery will take the place of the 1,480-MW brown coal plant, which is regarded as one of Australia’s dirtiest power plants. The plant, built in the 1970s, has suffered several outages in the last…
Australia leads the way in solar power research, but doesn’t have much of a solar power product-making industry as yet. Almost half of the world’s solar power comes from PERC modules, which is an invention of UNSW, but solar cells are only produced by one company in Australia. Manufacturing solar cells doesn’t fit too well…
Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation is to invest $160 million in a 300MW battery storage project to be built near Geelong in Victoria. Acting for the Australian government, CEFC will provide the funding for the design, construction and operation of Neoen’s 300MW/450MWh Victorian Big Battery (VBB) through a senior debt facility. Neoen is also using…
Chinese solar panel maker LONGi has supplied the Numurkah Solar Farm with its 128MW worth of solar panels. The farm, which was developed by French renewables producer Neoen and built by Aussie EPC Downer, started sending power to the grid in mid-2019 and is expected to have a 25-year service life. The solar farm is…