Victorians with solar power will get less for their exports if a draft determination by the Essential Services Commission goes ahead: the commission wants to cut another 33 per cent off the state’s feed-in tariff by July 2024. [Read more…]
Breaking the $140 Barrier: BNEF Reports Record Low Battery Prices
A still From Tesla’s battery manufacturing video.
Battery prices have begun falling again after rising during 2022, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). [Read more…]
Northvolt’s Revolutionary Sodium-Ion Battery Packs Serious Punch
Sweden’s Northvolt is touting a specific energy of 160 watt-hours per kilogram for its newly announced sodium-ion battery cell. [Read more…]
LG Battery Recall: 6000 Batteries Yet To Be Located
LG’s battery recall saga rolls on, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) recommending to Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones that he issue a national product safety notice for the solar storage units. [Read more…]
LONGi Claims 33.9% Solar Cell Efficiency Record
It doesn’t quite rate a “record tumbles” headline, but LONGi has added a couple of extra points to solar cell efficiency: its crystalline silicon-perovskite (CSP) tandem cells have set a world record efficiency of 33.9 percent. [Read more…]
Canberra’s Mega Battery Hits Snag: Connection Delayed to Next Year
Neoen’s grid-scale battery planned for Canberra is built, but it will take until next year for it to be connected, due to delays in compliance testing. Known as ‘Capital Battery’, the battery packs are manufactured by CATL and can support 20% of ACT’s peak summer demand. [Read more…]
Sungrow Leads As Market For Giant Batteries Soars
The global Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) integration market is becoming dominated by five key players as deployments of grid-scale batteries take off worldwide. [Read more…]
Weathering the Storm: Innovations in Hail-Ready Solar Farm Technology
Given that climate change will cause more extreme weather events, hailstorms are bound to pose a growing challenge to solar farm operators. [Read more…]
Australia Progressing Solar Inverter Cybersecurity Standards
While political China-baiting in the solar market continues unabated, we learned last week that the government is moving ahead on the security of internet-connected inverters. [Read more…]
Australia Doubles Down on Critical Minerals to Counter China’s Dominance
Greenbushes lithium mine, WA
The federal government wants more of Australia’s critical minerals like lithium to stay on these shores for battery manufacture, rather than being sent overseas, and has devoted another $2 billion to the cause. [Read more…]
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