Eyre to manufacture Pipistrel Alpha Electro in Australia
Pipistrel signed an MOU with Australian Eyre to There to manufacture their electric Alpha Electro in Australia.
EGEB: Australia to hit 50% renewables by 2030, Colorado energy shift, bifacial solar, and more
In today’s EGEB:
- Australia looks to hit 50% renewables by 2030, without government intervention.
- China’s lead in the solar race, illustrated.
- An energy company looks to shut down Colorado coal plants and add wind and solar.
- Ethiopia runs almost completely on renewable energy, and it’s looking for more.
- Bifacial solar gets a boost from a large order.
EGEB: Australia’s emission reduction target is too low says Clean Energy Council, vertical farming, India approves new 5GW solar farm
Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Today on EGEB, a new report by the Clean Energy Council decries Australia’s lack of long-term climate policy. A design student from Brunel University London invented a new, more efficient vertical farm that uses organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) and automation. India doubles down on renewable energy by approving a new gigantic 5 000 MW solar farm in the Gujarat state.
EGEB: new Australian green platform funded, largest Scottish solar project approved, India to add 2,5 GW of renewable energy production
Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Today on EGEB: Swiss firm Partners Group invests A$ 720 million to create the Grassroots Renewable Energy Platform, a series of large-scale projects to power Australia with renewable energy. Elgin Energy received Scotland’s green light to start the largest solar farm the country ever had. India’s ministry of new and renewable energy drafted the rules to auction 2.5GW in new solar-wind hybrid projects.
Tesla’s massive battery in Australia was paid up to $1000/MWh to charge itself
Yesterday, Saturday 13th, in South Australia the Tesla battery at Hornsdale Power Reserve was paid AU$1,000/MWh (USD$790/MWh) to absorb excess electricity from the power grid. The battery owners will later be able to sell this energy also.
The battery has become famous for coming online in under 100 days after an Elon Musk Twitter bet and later reacting to a crashed coal plants in milliseconds.
Tesla 100MW battery flexes muscles early this morning – delivers 70MWh of ‘stored wind power’, shows off fast switching
The 100MW/129MWh Tesla battery delivered in 100 days has begun testing. And – for the first time – on Thursday at 4:30 PM in Australia, early this morning in the US, the power plant delivered 70MW of ‘stored wind power’ during the peak electricity demand period.
Elon Musk, on March 9th of this year, promised via a tweet that he could deliver this battery within 100 days – or it’d be free.
Tesla accelerates hiring effort in Australia as Powerwall sales take off
Just a week after the first Tesla Powerwall for residential use in Australia has reportedly been installed in a Sydney suburb, we learn the company is launching a recruitment drive in Melbourne and Sydney to increase its ‘Tesla Energy’ team in the country. Expand
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Australia’s largest electric utility starts selling the Tesla Powerwall
Australia has the world’s highest per capita penetration of rooftop solar technology with 15% of households using solar for a total of 1.5 million households across the country. Electricity prices, which are among the highest in the world, and abundant sunlight contribute to making Australia an excellent market for solar energy and emerging home energy storage products.
Now those households will be able to combine their solar installations with Tesla’s home battery pack: the Powerwall. Origin, the largest electric utility in Australia, announced that it started to officially offer the Powerwall to its customers today. Expand
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Tesla completed the Supercharger route between Melbourne and Sydney
On November 20th, Tesla completed the Supercharger route between Melbourne and Sydney by opening a location in Gundagai. The company now operates 7 Supercharger locations in Australia and they are all located between Victoria’s coastal capital and the capital of New South Wales. Expand
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Tesla partners with SunEdison to bring the Powerwall to Australia by the end of the year
Last week we wrote about Tesla installing Powerwalls for “pilot customers” and revealing the first markets in which the company plans on deploying its new energy storage products. Now we learn that Tesla partnered up with SunEdison to bring the Powerwall in Australia by November. Expand
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Australia brings online its own “Electric Highway”
The Royal Automotive Club of Australia opened the “RAC Electric Highway“; a network of charging stations along the Australian west coast. Expand
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