The latest Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) newsletter showcases its EV projects.
ARENA Insights outlines projects from its earlier investments in ultra-fast charging networks to early lessons from the more recent smart charging portfolio.
With Australia’s EV sector set to boom, ARENA has expanded its focus to examine how EVs can be integrated into the electricity system, its smart charging demonstration projects aiming to take Australia’s vehicle fleet into the 21st century.
The first reports from these projects focus on customer acquisition, software development and charger installation.
The ARENA newsletter also checks out how a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project paves the way for future innovation.
As part of ActewAGL’s Realising Electric Vehicle-to-Grid Services project, ANU researchers have done interviews with trial participants, EV owners, industry leaders and others to learn more about attitudes toward V2G.
And ARENA Insights hosts a webinar on August 5 to share insights from an ultra-fast charging analysis.
In 2018 and 2019, ARENA invested $21 million in two ultra-fast charging networks to improve Australia’s EV charging infrastructure and help address range anxiety.
During this time, Chargefox and Evie Networks have been gathering valuable data about the establishment, operation and use of ultra-fast charging networks, which has recently been analysed by Energeia.
The webinar from 9.30am to 11am AEST includes a panel discussion involving representatives of Energia, Chargefox and Evie Networks, the latter including a report on lessons learnt in the latest ARENA Insights.
There are also reports from Powerlink, AGL on demand response (DR), Flow Power, Fulcrum3D’s wind and solar reports, the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative (ETI), battery storage updates, sustainable hydrogen generation, and more.
