Orkestra Selected for Climate Salad Global Growth Program
Orkestra are pleased to announce we have been selected to take part in the first ever Climate Salad Global Growth Program over the next...
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Team Orkestra
- Aug 3
- 2 min
Orkestra selected for Energy Lab Climate Solutions Accelerator 2023
Orkestra are pleased to announce our selection for Energy Lab's 2023 Climate Solutions Accelerator program. After a highly competitive...
James Allston
- Jul 18
- 8 min
Feasibility first selling - a turbocharger for solar and battery installer productivity and growth
James Allston explores feasibility-first value selling with Orkestra.
Team Orkestra
- Jun 26
- 3 min
Orkestra - Solving industry scalability to achieve global net zero by 2050
Orkestra’s Co-Founder and Co-CEO James Allston recently joined Hunter Watkin on the Abstraction Podcast to discuss the importance of...
James Allston
- May 19
- 5 min
ARENA Community Battery program: How to use Orkestra to prepare funding applications.
We've been inundated with enquiries on how Orkestra can help ARENA applicants. This blog summarises the program and how Orkestra can assist.
Bec O'Neill
- May 8
- 2 min
The Commercial Energy Storage Opportunity in 2023 and Beyond
Orkestra’s Co-Founder and Co-CEO James Allston recently joined Supply Partners to discuss the Commercial Energy Storage Opportunity in...
Chris Cooper
- Feb 28
- 2 min
Is this the world's most advanced business model design tool for energy projects?
Business Model Builder is an exciting feature that will blow the doors off project financing and energy service models for new energy...
James Allston
- Feb 7
- 7 min
C&I Battery Developer’s guide to the 2022 National Electricity Market (spoiler: it was a weird year)
The electricity market in the calendar year 2022 was one for the history books.
Chris Cooper
- Nov 28, 2022
- 6 min
Community batteries: feel good solution or financial folly?
Community batteries have been in the news lately, thanks largely to lofty government funding promises. But are they the way to go?
James Allston
- Nov 28, 2022
- 7 min
5 reasons for caution on community batteries
Orkestra recently completed what is likely to be the most detailed investigation into community batteries ever undertaken in Australia...
Georgina Hale
- Nov 7, 2022
- 2 min
Start-up gets $1.1m energy boost
“We see an opportunity for Orkestra to be a major data player, providing the enabling technology that can move the market by producing...
James Allston
- Sep 9, 2022
- 3 min
Memo to solar installers: get diversifying - the Australian solar market is predicted to contract
Growing a business in a growing market is a critical success factor for growth and the solar industry is no exception!
The Orkestra Team
- May 18, 2021
- 1 min
James Allston's all electric home
Our very own James Allston was asked by Nat from Nats What I Reckon, actor Yael Stone and The New Joneses to go through....
James Allston
- Oct 22, 2020
- 5 min
5 reasons why C&I virtual power plants will ultimately do better than residential ones
Here are the top 5 reasons why we think that C&I VPPs will ultimately outperform residential VPPs by being bigger and move valuable.
James Allston
- Aug 25, 2020
- 5 min
The 'ISP 2020' - Top 5 highlights for batteries and VPPs
What does the AEMO's ISP 2020 mean, in particular for energy storage and virtual power plants?
James Allston
- Aug 24, 2020
- 4 min
Building all electric homes – and why ditching gas isn’t as easy as it should be
It all starts with a simple question...
Chris Cooper
- Aug 3, 2020
- 3 min
C&I batteries | Don't make these 3 common mistakes
Don't make these mistakes when pursuing C&I battery projects...
James Allston
- Jul 3, 2020
- 3 min
What is the right price for a C&I battery in 2020?
Battery costs have been coming down dramatically in recent years with many people waiting for the “right price”. Bloomberg New Energy...
Michael Jurasovic
- May 11, 2020
- 3 min
Has Covid-19 crippled big-battery and virtual power plant economics
Big batteries in Australia have managed to get some serious momentum of late. Everyone has been inspired by the incredible economics of....
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