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Image: Twitter The Australian dairy farming industry is set for an energy efficiency overhaul, with grants of up to $20,000 opened up to businesses in the sector by the federal Coalition government, starting this week.The grants, part of…

Tritium today provided some plain and simple stats on how electric-vehicle drivers around the world are using its fast-chargers. Get a glimpse of your future life, beyond an EV-policy-poor Australia, when cars don’t exhaust and finding a…

June 21st, 2020 by Zachary Shahan An article from a couple of weeks ago, “This Stunning Chart Shows Why Battery Electric Vehicles Win,” somehow actually led in terms of eyeballs last week, but since it wasn’t published last week,…

A major split has emerged among Australia’s big energy utilities over the proposed delay to the introduction of the 5-minute settlement period on electricity markets – a reform deemed critical to encourage battery storage and demand…

The coastal city of Busselton last week became the fifth Western Australian community to receive a centralised battery storage system, which will help households make better use of energy generated by their rooftop solar systems, while…

The respective industries surrounding renewable energy sources commonly exist in an odd dynamic. On the one hand, there’s the industry-wide recognition that the greater uptake of green energy technology among solar, hydro, wind and other…

Global electric vehicle and storage giant Tesla has urged Australia’s energy authorities to accelerate the reform of energy market rules and resist the aggressive push by incumbent coal, gas and network companies for further delays.…

In the wake of Covid-19 it is more important than ever to accelerate Australia’s energy transition. Researchers find that the power of the fossil fuel sector, exercised at a grassroots level, must meet a compelling counterpart in the…

Batteries Published on June 21st, 2020 | by Johnna Crider June 21st, 2020 by Johnna Crider Netherlands-based tech company Lightyear has released two Lightyear Research vehicles to test a new type of solar technology for its own EV,…

Australian National University (ANU) researchers have more than nudged the dial on efficiency of solar-to-hydrogen production that bypasses electrolysers and avoids AC/DC power conversion and transmission losses. They say their new world…