RenewEconomy
VSUN edges closer to home storage market for vanadium batteries
Australian Vanadium says VSUN subsidiary well advanced in negotiations to roll out residential vanadium redox flow battery.
Categories: Around The Web
Vales Point coal plant looks to build 45MW solar farm
Owners of Vale Point coal generator looking to build 45MW solar farm on landfill site of now closed coal units.
Categories: Around The Web
Oops: Rick Perry may have stumbled upon solution to going 100% renewable
Buried in his grid study is how electric cars and smart control systems will enable deep penetration of solar and wind energy
Categories: Around The Web
ExxonMobil attacks new study that exposes its climate deception…again
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters marks an important advance in the examination of fossil fuel companies’ responsibility for climate change.
Categories: Around The Web
Finkel’s Clean Energy Target plan ‘better than nothing’: economists poll
When the perfect is the enemy of the "roughly acceptable”: Economists back emissions policy that Alan Finkel has put on the table.
Categories: Around The Web
Welcome to the world of excess solar and “free” electricity
Welcome to the brave new world of plentiful, variable, zero marginal cost renewable energy, By all indications – we ain’t seen nothing yet
Categories: Around The Web
Misleading headlines about electric car charging while boiling the kettle
Since UK announced plans to ban petrol and diesel sales from 2040, the shift to electric cars has attracted a lot of negative media coverage.
Categories: Around The Web
Search on for clean technology energy resources projects
NERA is working with Australian CleanTech to find the country’s best demonstration projects on clean technology solutions that integrate with and improve efficiency and competitiveness for the energy resources sector.
Categories: Around The Web
Frydenberg calls for advice on $110m Port Augusta solar thermal funds
Frydenberg asks ARENA, CEFC and Infrastructure and Project Financing Agency for advice on government's promised $110m equity investment Port Augusta solar tower plant.
Categories: Around The Web
100% renewable energy for 139 nations detailed in new Stanford report
Mark Z. Jacobson and 26 of his colleagues have compiled a report that shows exactly how 139 nations could transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050 without throwing millions of people out of work.
Categories: Around The Web
Australia urged to aim for 100% renewables by 2030s
As climate impacts mounts, there is a growing push for a 1.5°C target. This would mean reaching 100% renewable energy within 20 years. Australia could lead, and reap enormous economic benefits.
Categories: Around The Web
Neoen may expand Vic solar farm to 126MW after tram tender win
Neoen says it may treble size of its Nurmukah solar project off back of Victoria government tender win.
Categories: Around The Web
Infigen eyes commercial and industrial sector for new renewables
Infigen Energy reports a jump in profit for FY2107, as the company continues its transformation into an "active energy markets participant."
Categories: Around The Web
Victoria leads, Federal government leans on energy transition
Yesterday was an historic day for Victoria’s energy future. And there’s more good news on the way. Not that you would know it from listening to federal energy minister.
Categories: Around The Web
AEMC suggests new body to decide on battery storage standards
As industry rejects Standards Australia home battery ban proposal, AEMC calls for new body to govern standards for distributed energy market.
Categories: Around The Web
Windlab to receive $10 million milestone success payment in respect of the Coopers Gap Wind Farm
Windlab has become entitled to receive a milestone success payment of just over $10 million in respect of the Coopers Gap Wind Farm.
Categories: Around The Web
Rethinking the grid: Changes in power sector are an opportunity, not a threat
The Department of Energy’s study on grid reliability and resilience offers an incomplete picture of our grid’s transformation.
Categories: Around The Web
Trump thinks clean coal is when workers mine coal and actually ‘clean it’
In the real world, clean coal remains a fantasy, but in Trump world you can mine it, and then the workers "clean" it.
Categories: Around The Web
Home battery market not booming yet – but consumer interest is
As Australian households flock to solar, interest in battery storage is starting to ramp up, as a way to minimise grid electricity consumption and to provide a reliable source of back-up power.
Categories: Around The Web
WA’s biggest pig farm about to go 100 per cent renewable energy
WA’s biggest piggery operator to add wind and storage to existing solar arrays in push to 100 per cent renewable energy supply.
Categories: Around The Web