by Fabian Le Gay Brereton | Mar 28, 2022 | Electricity Markets
The traditional view of the electricity supply chain is something like: Generators → Transmission & Distribution → Retailers → Consumers. Every other participant in the supply chain, including consumers (as ‘prosumers’), are involved in the physical...
by Simone Guin | Feb 4, 2022 | Battery Storage, Decentralisation, Solar PV
More funding to help direct the energy transition Pete and Fabian, the co-founders of Gridcognition, are excited to announce we’ve ramped up our total funding to almost $4 million, after closing our Seed fundraising round recently. It only feels like yesterday...
by Fabian Le Gay Brereton | Feb 2, 2022 | Decentralisation, Solar PV
I’d almost forgotten how energizing industry events can be, until the recent Tech23 Showcase held in Sydney. It was an in-person event, in a real room, with real tables and real people – how refreshing! With panellists from academia, government and business,...
by Pete Tickler | Dec 8, 2021 | Decentralisation, Electricity Markets, energy, Networks, Solar PV
Nudged along by Anthony Seipolt’s post on AGL Australia offering a new retail tariff incentivising residential customers to turn off their solar systems in return for some cash (importantly, more cash than they’d otherwise get from their feed in tariff),...
by Fabian Le Gay Brereton | Nov 25, 2021 | Decentralisation, Solar PV
Only a few years ago debate was running hot over whether even relatively low levels of renewable energy in the world’s electricity grids was achievable, and back then “renewables” typically meant large utility-scale assets. Back then few people would...