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 sharing solar, batteries and EVs will make energy system more resilient
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…
World Bank commits $US1 billion to develop storage in developing world
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…
20MW solar farm to power crypto-currency mining in Collie
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…
Semitransparent solar cells: a window to the future?
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…
Pic of the Day: Old meets new at solar-powered antique shop
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…
Ciel & Terre starts construction on world’s largest floating PV plant
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…
Battery storage “gigafactory” planned for Darwin for 2018
26th June 2017 Australia’s first battery storage “gigafactory” is likely to be built in Darwin, with a new consortium planing to establish a large-scale lithium-ion manufacturing plant by the end of 2018. Energy Renaissance, a company backed by engineering group…
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How Smart Contracts [Could] Simplify Clean Energy Distribution
17th May 2017 On Tuesday May 9, Rocky Mountain Institute announced that ten energy companies from nine nations, including Sempra and Royal Dutch Shell, had joined the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), a nonprofit comprising of Rocky Mountain Institute and Grid Singularity, with a…
P2P energy sharing start-up brings Brooklyn Microgrid smarts to Australia
8th November 2016 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.…
