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A capsule containing samples of a farflung asteroid that could help explain the origins of life on Earth has been recovered in a remote area of the Australian outback.Japan’s space agency has announced its helicopter search team has found…

Non-stop PV manufacturing capacity expansion has been a near-constant feature of the solar landscape over the past decade. Back to 2008 or even 2014, when market demand was trigged by early subsidy programs and an increasing awareness of…

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has once again thrown its idea for a solar tax in the ring, insisting Australia’s grids will be destabilised by the midday flood from solar-exporting homes and that shifting grid infrastructure…

Australia might have had a surprisingly good year of home battery installations in the year of the Coronavirus, but Germany smashed it out of the park, with the addition of more than 100,000 residential battery systems in 2020 taking the…

Follow Julian on Twitter @JulianSpector and subscribe to Bright Ideas, his free weekly newsletter on the rise of clean energy. ***When your job involves occasionally illustrating the collapse of companies with a stock image of a skull,…

Dutch research institute TNO has released a series of guidelines to reduce fire hazards in rooftop PV installations. The study follows a series of fire accidents that occurred between 2018 and 2020 in the Netherlands, for which the main…

US beer brand Budweiser has pledged to turn each and every beer green on St Patrick’s Day in the US; not with food dye – as is the tradition for American beer drinkers on March 17 – but with renewable energy. The Anheuser-Busch owned brewer…

The energy storage hopeful behind plans to build Australia’s first gigawatt-scale lithium-ion battery factory has joined forces with the CSIRO to develop a home gown, “defence grade” battery management system, or BMS.Energy Renaissance,…

Australia’s first renewables brokering service, Teho, aims to tie together the disparate industry threads of solar, batteries, EVs and renewable energy retailers and simplify the path towards renewables for everyday people. Pv magazine…

The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia has laid claim to a renewable energy first. Not just first in the state of Queensland, or the nation of Australia—but reportedly first in the world. Since the opening of the US$90 million (AU$…