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EcoJoule Energy has secured a $15 million capital investment to support the company’s national and international growth ambitions and help manage the problem of energy grid instability caused by household solar adoption. As the world accelerates towards decarbonisation, Queensland-based EcoJoule Energy has emerged as a key player in the transition…

In a significant development for renewable energy initiatives, EcoJoule Energy has been awarded a contract to supply 17 cutting-edge pole-mounted battery systems for a new energy storage trial across five regional communities in New South Wales. The trial, led by Essential Energy in partnership with Origin Energy, aims to enhance…

In April we were very pleased to welcome Hon Mick de Brenni the Queensland Minister for Energy, Renewables and Hydrogen and Minister for Public Works and Procurement together with his team to our premises in Loganholme. During the visit, Minister de Brenni was very interested in our wholly Queensland-based development…

Newspaper The Australian has held its second annual ‘Green Power Players’ List to commemorate Australia’s top 100 most important people in the green energy space. Our very own CEO, Michael Wishart, has been included as part of list! The article writes as follows: Electronics industry veteran Mike Wishart is the…

Endeavour Energy has recently commissioned the first of several pole mounted network support batteries in time for the launch of Sydney Water’s Urban Plunge pop-up swim site on Saturday November 26.  The units have been installed in Andrew Campbell Reserve (William Lawson Dr, Prospect NSW) together with Solar Panels and…

Australia’s new Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Hon Chris Bowen MP, announced that electorates in the Wollongong area will benefit from Community Batteries under Labor’s “Power to the People” Program. The announcement was made at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre (SBRC) at the University of Wollongong Innovation Campus. As…

The 10th IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (Asia) is being proudly hosted at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre from 5 – 8 December 2021. EcoJoule’s Principal Engineer – Control Systems, Dr Mihai Ciobotaru, will have his paper on the conference theme, “Resilient renewable energies and grid transformations”,…

7th June 2021 – Ausgrid has partnered with EcoJoule Energy to install cutting-edge technology to improve power supply to the community of Nords Wharf on the shore of Lake Macquarie. Nords Wharf, like many small regional communities, had been experiencing fluctuations in voltage due to long low-voltage networks and the…

27 May 2021 – An article published in the Australian Financial Review this week raises questions over the AEMC’s proposal to allow distributors to charge solar-owners for surplus solar power exports at peak times.  The AFR article quotes EcoJoule Energy’s Tony Ferguson as saying, “My concern with solar tariffs is…

29 April 2021 – A little over 6 months ago EcoJoule Energy announced a shipment of their EcoVar Statcom units to Lithuania for trial and test with one of the largest energy companies in the Baltic States, namely ESO. EcoJoule Energy are pleased that the pilot site is operational and…

The directors and staff of EcoJoule Energy have announced Dr Mihai Ciobotaru is to join the EcoJoule team as Principal Engineer – Control Systems.  EcoJoule CEO Dr Mike Wishart made the announcement and said, “Mihai’s formidable expertise and his substantial experience with some of the world’s leading energy research institutions…

27 November 2020 EcoJoule Energy have proudly thrown their support behind a campaign aimed to get the Energy Regulator to make a regulatory change which would allow Conservation Voltage Reduction in Australia. There is a simple regulatory change which uses an existing in-place incentive scheme for electricity network businesses that…

1 September 2020 – The Directors at EcoJoule Energy are privileged to welcome Mark Johnson AO as the newest investor and shareholder in the Company. In a joint statement EcoJoule Directors Mike Wishart and Tony Ferguson said, “Mark has had a distinguished career and has been a respected leader in…

15 July 2020 Ty Christopher has joined EcoJoule Energy as Senior Adviser – Strategy and Business DevelopmentTy’s immediate previous position was as a Senior Executive in a major energy company in NSW holding responsibility for infrastructure development and reporting directly to the Chief Executive OfficerTy is an Honorary Professorial Fellow…

12 June 2020 – Ausgrid is investigating the potential of new low voltage regulation technology from EcoJoule Energy to help optimise the benefits to consumers who have, or may invest, in Distributed Energy Resources (DER), such as rooftop solar or batteries.  Junayd Hollis, Ausgrid’s General Manager – Asset Management said…

“A way to invest in the Network of the Future” On Friday 1 March 2019, Dr. Mike Wishart, CEO of EcoJoule Energy, handed over the first production EcoVAR units to Endeavour Energy for trials in a pilot study and to the Australian Power Quality and Reliability Centre at the University…

The electricity network has changed from a one-way street to one where power flows in both directions. Endeavour Energy is carrying out a pilot study on a device that aims to make that two-way flow more reliable. Previously electricity ran from the power plant to the home, but now people…

In January 2019, it was officially announced that Ecojoule Energy was among the recipients of the Government’s Accelerating Commercialisation Grant. Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, Karen Andrews said the grants were designed to accelerate the development of high-quality projects which had strong local and export market potential. Minister Andrews…