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Pioneering community wind farm adds battery and home-grown smarts to dodge negative prices
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (918+ words) Image: Hepburn Energy Park The first community wind farm to be built on Australia's main grid nearly 15 years ago will use smart bidding software originated at the University of Adelaide to help it survive and thrive in an increasingly volatile…...
Victoria's biggest solar project, partially built by robots, injects first power into the grid
4+ mon, 2+ week ago (472+ words) Luminous panel installer robot at the Goorambat solar project. Image: Engie The first electricity from what will be the biggest solar farm in Victoria has been sent to the grid, taking the total number of large scale solar farms operating…...
How a robot named Bear is making solar farm maintenance safer and more efficient
1+ day, 37+ min ago (553+ words) Thursday, March 26, 2026 Australia's national science agency has repurposed robots originally designed for the mining industry to track across thousands of kilometres harsh terrain and inspect the hundreds of thousands of solar panels that make up large-scale PV projects, hunting out…...
Robots are coming! Machines being tested at solar projects for pile driving as well as mounting panels
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (938+ words) Neoen is not the only renewables developer testing out a robot: the contractor at Engie's Goorambat East solar farm is also trialling autonomous machines, this time for pile driving. The Build Robotics device started in February and finished installing 1700 piles…...
Robotics firm lands funding to help slash costs of delivering large scale solar projects in Australia
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (791+ words) A US-based robotics firm has become the first recipient of funding from a $100 million Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) program to back innovative technologies that can slash the cost of building large scale solar projects. The Boston-based robotics pioneer Luminous…...
"Future of solar": Robots put finishing touches on large Victoria PV project
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (741+ words) Engie has finished the third trial of robot helpers at its 250 megawatt (MW) Goorambat East solar project in Victoria, proving up what it says is the future of solar development in Australia." The final robot, a panel installer from US…...
State unveils its own "solar sharer" offer, promising three hours of free power and big bill savings
22+ hour, 57+ min ago (677+ words) Victoria has confirmed that it will roll out its own version of the federal government's Solar Sharer offer, giving households in the state access to three hours of free power in the middle of each day and shaving their energy…...
Ampyr seeks investors in gigawatt-scale battery as it rolls out network of micro batteries
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (506+ words) Wellington solar farm. Image: Lightsource bp. Singapore-backed Ampyr Energy is seeking investors to buy into the first of its two gigawatt scale battery projects in Australia, as it also rolls out a network of sub-5 MW mini batteries across the…...
New four-hour big battery joins queue for federal green tick, backed by local landowners
3+ day, 7+ min ago (657+ words) Tasmanian renewables developer Alternate Path is progressing plans for a massive new battery project on the mainland, in Victoria, in the state's west. The Murchs Corner project near Darlington was last week referred to the EPBC, proposing a "conceptual capacity…...
Bowen names 16 winners of Australia's biggest battery storage tender
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (940+ words) Waratah Super Battery, Akaysha Energy The federal government has announced 16 winners of its landmark tender for "dispatchable generation" " the biggest ever held in the country " confirming battery storage as the overwhelming success of Australia's green energy transition. Federal energy and…...