27th March 2020 A Western Australian farm has taken its 26-year old business off-grid using solar PV and 40kWh of zinc bromine flow batteries from Australian energy storage company Redflow. The owners of the 34-hectare property near Gingin, 90km north…
Image Credit: Reposit Power 4th March 2020 A couple of small wins for the Australian residential energy storage market this week, with the Victorian government’s rebate scheme extended to 150 more postcodes in the state, and in New South Wales,…
4th Marth 2020 Energex’ recent submission to the Queensland Productivity Commission electricity pricing inquiry left a lot of solar system owners concerned about their systems and their plans to add batteries at a later stage. Energex recently increased their supply…
17th February 2020 The vehicles and cities of the future could become the source of their own power, with innovations in solar ‘skins’ and solar ‘paint’ opening up opportunities for the surfaces of cars and buildings to produce solar power.…
How can you and I use our own and each other’s energy resources to lessen our exposure to severe weather events? Climate change is already causing destructive impacts to electricity systems in Australia as elsewhere in the world. These…
9th October 2018 French President Emmanuel Macron, right, Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank Group, second from right, Michael Bloomberg, United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Action, center, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed, second from left, and Christine…
27th April 2018 Planning approval has been obtained for a 20MW solar farm that will power a data centre and crypto-currency mining in the coal-mining centre of Collie in Western Australia. The application for the solar farm was made by…
20th February 2018 Looking through semitransparent cells – one day these could be big enough to make windows. UNSW, Author provided Can you see a window as you are reading this article? Windows have been ubiquitous in society for centuries, filling…
18th August 2017 It might have been a bit cloudy in the Victorian country town of Smythesdale when this snap was taken, but the message it delivers is clear: even a purveyor of old stuff, from an old building in…
10th July 2017 French floating PV specialist Ciel et Terre International announced it has started construction on a 70 MW floating solar plant in China’s Anhui province for China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group (CECEP), a top state-owned energy…
