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Melbourne Airport, one of the Australia’s busiest travel, transport and freight hubs, has revealed plans to expand its solar PV energy portfolio just days after formally unveiling one of the nation’s largest behind-the-meter solar farms.…

UK renewables giant RES, which is developing plans for a massive wind, solar and battery storage facility in Victoria, has doubled its renewables asset management portfolio in Australia after the acquisition of Sydney firm,…

The company behind bill management platform 1bill on Monday announced it will invest more than $2 million in the energy software company Accurassi. The investment will see Accurassi build a platform for energy retailers to accelerate…

In 1961, William Shockley and Hans-Joachim Queisser calculated that the maximum theoretical efficiency of a silicon-based solar panel is 30%. In other words, less than a third of the sunlight that strikes a solar panel can be turned into…

In the search for life beyond Earth, NASA's Curiosity rover has been on a nearly decade-long mission to determine if Mars was ever habitable for living organisms.A new analysis of sediment samples collected by the rover revealed the…

For just shy of a week leading up to December 29, South Australia sourced an average of 101% of its electricity demand from renewable energy. January 19, 2022 Bella PeacockSouth Australia’s 156 hours powered by wind, rooftop solar and…

The Suiso Frontier cargo vessel docked at Victoria’s Port of Hastings on Friday to take on the world’s first shipment of liquid hydrogen. The ship’s arrival is a landmark for the Japanese-Australian Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain pilot…

Victoria’s Bowens has invested $1.2 million in a large scale rooftop solar installation along with power factor correction units in order to cut its carbon emissions and promote sustainable practices in the construction sector. With new…

A new $100 million funding round for next generation big battery storage installations, featuring advanced or “grid forming” inverters seen as crucial for the transition to 100 per cent renewable grids, will open next week.The funding round…

Prospective hydrogen projects in the Northern Territory are taking new shape with Monday’s news that FRV Australia, partially owned by now Saudi company Fotowatio Renewable Ventures, had signed an agreement with Australia’s Hexagon Energy.…