Australia

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! This news makes you wonder if Australia’s take-up of solar and Tesla batteries are as important as Norway’s support for Tesla vehicles. Australia,…

Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! Recently I was engaged in an odd conversation online, one that spanned from Australia to Germany, almost exactly the opposite sides of the world.…

It appears that Australia is in the middle of a massive assault of new battery installations. Will this decade be for batteries what last decade was for rooftop solar? Highly likely. After the success of the Hornsdale Battery Reserve in…

Back in 2021, Australia launched a study about getting its economy to net zero by 2050, which is a laudable goal. Along the way, it appears to have been hijacked by people huffing hydrogen hopium. The April 19th, 2023 release projected a…

A week ago, all of the electricity demand in South Australia was met by solar — rooftop and utility — from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. That’s six hours of free power from the sun. Sometime this year (remember, we in the antipodes are heading into…

A recent study into the use of virtual power plants (VPPs) in Australia has shown that the market is not quite ready for them. The returns to the participants appear to be less than what they would achieve by storing their excess solar…

Australia is one of the leaders in the world in the adaptation of electrical power grids to the new technologies of renewable energy. Famous for the Hornsdale Power Reserve (Tesla’s Big Battery in South Australia), the country is now…

Clean Power Published on June 4th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan June 4th, 2020 by Cynthia Shahan This is the kind of boom we want to read about. A boom in jobs, but not only jobs, careers, and not only careers, but careers that mean…

An additional $2.9 million from the Australian Government’s Outer Islands Renewable Energy Project (OIREP) is making its way across the sea to the kingdom of Tonga in the form of solar power plants and energy storage. The project is…