Company Updates
One Stop Warehouse’s busy start for GCL E-KwBe battery
Wholesaler One Stop Warehouse has had a very busy year filling demand for parent company GCL’s E-KwBe storage solution.
Renewables
Inside the CSIRO’s hybrid energy systems hothouse
The CSIRO’s Centre for Hybrid Energy Systems is helping industry partners find the best mix of renewable energy generation and storage, and refining hydrogen and fuel cell technologies that may provide tomorrow’s baseload power.
For Consumers, Solar
Optimal approaches to maximising battery ROI
Matching a battery to a householder's expectations and energy consumption is devilishly complicated, writes Warwick Johnston of SunWiz, who explains why smaller storage systems are often better.
Renewables
What is Australia’s biofuel future?
With growing interest in Australia in the production of liquid biofuels, bio-refining experts Geoff Bell, CEO of Australian company Microbiogen, and Ed de Jong, vice-president of development at Dutch renewable chemicals company Avantium, consider the drivers of biofuels production and what the future could look like.
Policy
While Turnbull dithers on coal, wind powers on
COMMENT | It’s time Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull showed the leadership Australia needs to transition to renewable energy.
Company Updates
Fronius partners with Selectronic for off-grid solution
PRESS RELEASE | Fronius has moved closer to achieving its vision of 24 hours of sun by expanding its storage offering to make the Fronius Primo range compatible with Selectronic’s grid-tie inverters.
Policy
Energy efficiency is too powerful for a Cinderella role
Efficiency is the key to a secure and affordable renewable energy system, writes Energy Efficiency Council head of policy Rob Murray-Leach.
Renewables
Biomass fires a Cape Byron Power turnaround
The ability to recognise the potential in renewable energy assets is one thing but delivering success takes a deeper knowhow and sector experience. The story of biomass-fired Cape Byron Power Station is just that.
Renewables
Energy Hack backs the bright sparks
Energy Hack 2016, a two-day brainstorming blitz that bunched together “hackers, hustlers and hipsters”, wound down on Sunday night having produced a few new solutions to the energy puzzle.
Solar