Projects

To harvest the sun’s power you must maximise your exposure to it. Any tree will tell you that. It’s why they have broad canopies made up of thousands of flat receiving devices called “leaves”. Humans caught on to this as a great way to turn…

Two things are happening in the world as certainly as seagulls love chips: electric vehicles will replace petrol-powered cars and generation of electricity using renewable resources will replace coal. That’s good news, if you want to live…

You’re late out of work and haven’t thought about dinner. The bus will be here in a minute and you’re outside the supermarket. You rush in and stand before cabinets stacked with frozen food. As you reach for a family size supreme pizza, you…

Dr Michelle McCann takes a deep(ish) dive into module procurement and quality assurance, from specification through to monitoring on the farm. At first glance, a solar farm looks simple – modules, racking, inverters, poles and wires. Done.…

Many believe that distributed energy resources hold the key to a smart and smooth energy transition. If hundreds or even thousands of sources of generation and storage are connected then their orchestrated operation should deliver clean,…

Despite incohesive national policy leadership, Australian industry has delivered more clean energy and energy efficiency upgrades over the past 20 years than projected. EcoGeneration founding editor Jessica Lynch looks back at the progress…

The renewable energy industry could employ thousands more Australians over the next decade, but only if we take meaningful action now, writes Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton. Every dollar spent as part of Australia’s economic…

As the cost of clean energy hybrid power plants falls miners around the world are shaking off their reliance on fossil fuels, writes Sarah Wang. The mining industry has traditionally been a big energy consumer, estimated to account for…

The NSW government’s efforts to incentivise the creation of the state’s first renewable energy zone, or REZ, has seen 113 parties come forward with a total 27GW of projects. To help support the transmission that would enable the state’s…

The federal government’s $20 million show of support for microgrid projects around the country in June was a rare bullseye for the dart-throwers in Canberra. The 17 recipients of the Region­al and Remote Com­mu­ni­ties Reli­a­bil­i­ty Fund…