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University of New South Wales chemical engineer Scientia Professor Rose Amal has been awarded companion of the order of Australia (AC), for her eminent service to chemical engineering. [Read more…]
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Australian Solar Systems Interest Index – June 2018
Australians have been installing solar panels at a record rate and there’s still plenty of interest in turning the nation’s naked rooftops into bill-busting electricity generation platforms. [Read more…]
Landlord Energy — Providing Solar For Commercial Tenants
If you are a business owner there’s an excellent chance you’re not happy with cost of grid electricity and would love to lower your bills with rooftop solar. Unfortunately, there’s also an excellent chance you rent your business premises and so don’t have much of an incentive to install solar. After all you can’t take it with you when you leave. [Read more…]
Trump Wants To Prop Up Coal And Nuclear Power In The USA
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U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to stop ailing coal and nuclear plants across the country from closing, much to the horror of the nation’s gas and renewable energy supporters. [Read more…]
New Solar Homes Robbed Of Choice In ACT: Demand Or Time-of-Use Tariffs Only
If you live in ACT and install solar – you are forced to choose between 2 not very great electricity tariffs.
If you are getting a new house built or having solar power installed in the ACT I have some bad news. You will lose the ability to freely choose between electricity plans. You will no longer be able to select a standard tariff; which is usually best for solar households. Instead you will be forced on to either a time-of-use tariff or a demand tariff. [Read more…]
Green Light For Wellington Solar + Storage Facility
The town of Wellington in New South Wales will soon have a new neighbour, a 174 megawatt solar farm that will also feature battery storage. [Read more…]
The Good Solar Guide: 7 Steps To Tiny Bills For Australian Homeowners
Almost 10 years ago, I sat down for 2 weeks in Brighton Public Library and put everything I knew about residential solar power systems into my battered old laptop. I used the free Wi-Fi to upload that information to a home-brewed website called SolarQuotes. The knowledge was picked up from working for the Energy Transformed Flagship at CSIRO combined with my broader background in electrical engineering.
Since then, millions of people have visited the site; which has been continuously improved over the years. [Read more…]
Australian Rooftop Solar Continues To Power Ahead
Rooftop solar PV installs this year are 56% above the same period last year says Green Energy Markets’ latest Renewable Energy Index. [Read more…]
Wind And Solar Power Vs. Coal Seam Gas In Narrabri Shire
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Santos’s proposed Narrabri Gas Project seeks to construct hundreds of coal seam gas wells within the Narrabri Shire area – but what if there was a focus on wind and solar power in the shire instead? [Read more…]
Arvio Supercapacitor Energy Storage — Powerful Enough To Beat Batteries At Their Own Game?
Will Super Capacitor Energy Storage Save The World?
Note from Finn: People have asked me if I would recommend buying a ‘super capacitor’ over a conventional battery. My short answer is no. Personally I think the technology is too new to consider it in a residential application. As Ronald says at the end of the post: “…they are a new thing and sometimes new things have problems that aren’t apparent at first.” Buyer beware.
Australian company Arvio is now selling a supercapacitor energy storage module. If you go to their site you can see the Kilowatt Labs Sirius module that stores 3.55 kilowatt-hours of electricity on sale for $4,950 including GST – here’s how it looks: [Read more…]
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