Between a promised state-wide energy storage target and “Power Melbourne”, there’s been a bit happening on the battery storage front in Victoria. Just briefly as it’s been extensively covered elsewhere, yesterday Victoria’s Andrews Government announced it would pursue renewable energy storage targets of 2.6 gigawatts by 2030 and 6.3 gigawatts by 2035. The targets involve […]
Nestled in the foothills of the Australian Alps is a small town with huge energy ambitions. Yackandandah, a 25-minute drive south of the Murray in north-east Victoria on Jaithmathang country, has its sights set on being entirely powered by renewables by 2024. Behind this lofty goal is a volunteer-run grassroots group called Totally Renewable Yackandandah, […]
A bunch of new home batteries were unveiled at the RE+ trade show last week. Here’s a quick look at a few of them. Formerly known as SPI, ESI, and Smart Energy Week, the RE+ trade show in Anaheim, California ran from September 19 to September 22. It was a huge affair, with 814 exhibitors […]
Australia has a golden opportunity to expand its solar energy manufacturing capacity as the industry booms and nations scramble to cut their over-dependence on China, a report by the Australian Australian PV Institute Institute says. The country is installing 4GW of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity a year already but meeting just 3% of that from […]
Rice University engineers say they’ve solved a long-standing conundrum in making stable, efficient solar panels out of halide perovskites. It took finding the right solvent design to apply a 2D top layer of desired composition and thickness without destroying the 3D bottom one (or vice versa). Such a cell would turn more sunlight into electricity […]
A solar panel that moves with the sun was showcased at Bishop James Mahoney (BJM) High School in Saskatoon on Thursday. The device dubbed the Smartflower Microgrid (MG) is an intelligent solar-powered energy system that unfolds as the sun rises, follows the sun to maximize the energy absorbed, and folds back up during the evening. […]
