Acting CEO, Australian Renewable Energy Agency
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ARENA marks 100 community batteries installed under its funding initiative and announces $23.2 million in new grants for three Round 2 battery projects led by YES Group, Ausgrid and the City of Newcastle.
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ARENA will spend up to $105.6 million on 20 solar research projects, including grants for Sunspence, Proa Energy and a University of Sydney tandem-cell team working with panel maker Unison Solar.
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ARENA has announced $105.6 million in grants for twenty solar research projects, mostly at Australian universities, plus two companies, targeting cheaper cells, modules and solar farm operations.
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ARENA announces A$500,000 in funding for RELA Australia to enhance its RELA Assess software, helping farmers gauge solar and wind potential on their properties ahead of negotiations with developers.
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The renewable energy agency will grant Gelion $4.8 million, conditional on co-funding, to build a Sydney prototyping centre advancing its lithium-sulphur and silicon-sulphur battery chemistries toward commercialisation.
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ARENA has awarded UNSW $1.7 million for Project CICCADA, a $4.3 million research effort analysing data from rooftop solar, batteries and electric vehicles to inform integration of consumer energy resources into the grid.
ARENA announced funding for Edify Energy's advanced-inverter battery beside its Darlington Point solar farm in NSW, expanded to 150 MW, with the NSW Government adding money under its Emerging Energy Program.
Twelve big battery projects have been shortlisted to apply for a federal renewable agency's grid-scale storage grants, while the agency's earlier backing of grid-forming batteries, including one at Broken Hill, is recalled.