One of the architects of the peer-to-peer energy trading platform behind the world-leading Brooklyn Microgrid in the US has set up an office in New South Wales, with plans to trial its “TransActive Grid” technology in Australia.

Tesla recently launched its Powerwall 2.0 battery at a price per kWh stored that is less than half the price of its first battery. My previous article lookedat the annual charge that a household that installed 5 kW PV+ Powerwall 2.0 battery would pay. Such customers would use the grid for back-up supply and to export surplus PV production that it does not use. That article compared this “PV+battery+grid” option to the annual charge that a customer would pay for “grid-only” supply (i.e. a customer without PV and battery).

The University of Southern Queensland has become the latest of Australia’s tertiary institutions to embrace renewable energy, announcing plans to add nearly 2MW of rooftop solar and battery storage across its Toowoomba, Springfield and Ipswich campuses.

After increasing its installed inverter capacity in North America by 33% in less than a year, SMA announced that it has reached 10GW of installed capacity within the region.