Technology

Prime Minister Scott Morrison today announced six of 15 projects to be fast-tracked for jobs creation, among them the Marinus Link interconnector between the Australian mainland and Tasmania, which promises to unlock renewable projects on…

pv magazine Australia: Fulcrum3D provides technical solutions for remote measurement and forecasting in the utility-scale renewable sector, particularly wind and solar. Why is reliable data so important? Jo Hume, Fulcrum3D General…

By scanning millions of iterations, pvDesign finds the best plant configuration and automatically generates over 300 pages of detailed documentation in seconds. The Spanish firm has just landed its first Australian client. June 9,…

Submissions are in on the Victoria-New South Wales Interconnector (VNI) West upgrade options, published by AEMO in December and undergoing the required Regulatory Investment Test for Transmission (RIT-T). Among the submitted clarifications…

In a first for both companies, German-Korean solar-system manufacturer Hanwha Q Cells has invested $5 million in Australia’s SwitchDin, an innovative provider of monitoring and management systems that orchestrate small-scale distributed…

Ever stood outside looking up at your rooftop solar PV system and wondered: “Are those panels giving me their best?” Well, Solcast has a free solar PV performance checking tool that can give you a solid estimate of your PV system’s…

The Clean Energy Council (CEC) has released its “Clean Energy At Work” report (Report) detailing the widespread job opportunities in Australia’s renewable energy industry. Moreover, the Report emphasises the nation’s almost unique…

Last week a 1.7 MW Bright Thinkers Power Station was commissioned and fully functioning on industrial property group Goodman’s Oakdale Park Estate in Western Sydney — the excitement lies in the fact that smart switching technology,…

No matter how keen we may be to resume travel, Covid-19 has likely dampened our enthusiasm for flying in confined spaces with hundreds of others. Touchdown, the nine-seater Cessna eCaravan, powered entirely by an electric motor engineered…

Dr Yang Li and Dr Zi Ouyang bring years of R&D and the insights they developed as PhDs at UNSW’s famous School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering to the gnarly problem of accurately forecasting solar-farm output. After…