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Smart businesses will see their meters slow down in 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

As solar fans look towards 2014 with a mixture of dread and anticipation, one thing seems certain; energy prices will continue to rise. Yes that’s right, expect your bills to go up despite Abbott’s promise to reduce them.<\/p>\n

People who actually know how the National Electricity Market (NEM) works, understand what the climate-change denying knuckle draggers in government\u00a0don’t. Even if they do\u00a0‘Axe The Tax\u2122’\u00a0 your electricity and gas prices are going in only one direction: up<\/a>.\u00a0 Smart Australian business owners are not expecting their bills to drop anytime soon, no matter what promises Abbott spews forth.<\/p>\n

As a result, at SQ we are predicting an unstoppable adoption of energy efficiency measures in commercial buildings. Businesses will face rising energy bills if they do nothing, a<\/span>nd when they realise they can’t trust the pollies to reduce their bills – \u00a0they will simply have to take matters into their own hands before overheads get out of control.<\/p>\n

In particular the move towards energy efficiency for offices and factories in businesses both big and small should be right at the top of their New Year’s resolutions for 2014. Not only is the SQHQ bunker in Radelaide and key Sydney office\u00a0solar powered (6kW Tindo\/Solarbridge and 8kW Sunpower\/Fronius respectively) but the Melbourne data centre where the SQHQ dedicated servers spin their stuff 24\/7 will also soon have 100% of its power usage offset by solar energy<\/a>. This thanks to the Data Centre’s power purchase agreement with a massive commercial solar farm in the glorious Swan Hill.<\/p>\n

Great (you may say) but what of energy efficiency in large skyscrapers and factories? Funnily enough it is here that big energy savings can be made. The large roof space and 9-5 energy use profile of these buildings lend themselves instantly to the installation of the ultimate in office energy savings — that of solar panels. \u00a0Finn has written previously<\/a> about the huge returns that can be had with commercial solar on the roof of an office or factory, but what’s a business owner to do when they run out of roof space for those shiny panels?<\/p>\n

We wrote recently about perovskite<\/a>, a mysterious substance found in the Ural Mountains in the middle of the 19th century. The great characteristic about the substance (apart from me making predictable jokes about it sounding like the baddie\u00a0from a James Bond film) is that it has the capacity to replace silicon in solar cells.<\/p>\n

We reported on Professor Henry Snaith (Dr No?) of Oxford University whose team was leading the research in this field. Now the latest manifestation of his work comes in the form of perovskite solar cells being applied to the windows of mammoth office blocks and skyscrapers to generate electricity.<\/p>\n

To be successful as solar cells in windows, the cells need to be both energy efficient yet transparent enough to let light through. This is where perovskite is ideally suited. According to a Dec. 19 article<\/a> in Chemical and Engineering News: “Perovskites have properties similar to inorganic semiconductors and show sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiencies of more than 15 percent”.<\/p>\n

The real Bond-esque hero in this whole breakthrough is of course on-site energy generation for large businesses and office blocks. The vast expanse of glass housing our besuited workers will mean that new innovations such as the use of perovskite in windows could well be the future in commercial solar. The big energy utilities won’t like it of course, though with their history of standing still and rejecting innovation it may be a case of “shaken not stirred” on their part. (OK that’s the last of the Dad jokes left over from Christmas!).<\/p>\n

All that remains is to wish all SQ readers a very happy, safe and renewable New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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