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| Sep 10, 2026 | Centurion Backs WA Electric Battery-Swap Freight; Sany Trucks Subject to China Data Law | By Frederick Rodriguez
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| Sep 7, 2026 | Rebuilt Transformer Energized at Waratah: Australia’s Largest Battery Nears Full Capacity | By Levi Kohler
Published: Sep 07 2026, 4:39 PM EDT
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| Feb 25, 2026 | Fox ESS Enhances Versatile Energy Storage Solutions with the New H3 PRO Hybrid Inverter | MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Fox ESS, a leading provider of renewable energy solutions, has announced a significant expansion of its energy storage capabilities in Australia with the introduction of the H3 PRO Hybrid ... |
| May 27, 2025 | Five huge climate opportunities await the next parliament – and it has the numbers to deliver | Meanwhile, the Coalition – which promoted nuclear energy and a slower renewables transition – suffered a historic defeat.
Labor also looks set to have increased numbers in the Senate, where the Greens are likely to hold the balance of power... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Diesel-thirsty mining can fuel an energy revolution | Flipping government incentives from fossil fuel use to accelerating electrification could bring huge benefits to the Australian mining industry.
The mining industry receives more than half of Australia’s Fuel Tax Credits Scheme, which is se... |
| May 27, 2024 | Australia’s domestic manufacturing gets a $523.2 million boost with Battery Breakthrough | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
Australia has a new National Battery Strategy, unveiled last week as a key part of the government’s Future Made in Australia agenda. The vision is for this country to be making batteries with secure... |
| Feb 6, 2023 | World's Largest Electrolyzer, Hydrogen Power Plant Will be Built Soon in South Australia | Jace Dela Cruz, Tech Times 06 February 2023, 07:02 pm
The South Australian government is making sure to have a green energy future and combat the worsening effects of climate change with the construction of the world's biggest green el... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Malcolm Turnbull joins Atlassian and Canva co-founders in $21 million funding round for solar innovator SunDrive | Source: Joel Carrett / AAP Image
Australian solar panel innovator SunDrive has booked a new $21 million funding round, featuring input from heavyweight renewable energy investor Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canva co-founder Cameron Adams.
And, f... |
| Jun 9, 2022 | War and floods take the bite out of KFC Australia – after a chicken shortage, it is now facing a lettuce crisis | The war in Ukraine has affected the global supply chain and prices of several essential food items have jumped through the roof.
On top of this crisis, Australia has seen sporadic floods that have destroyed several domestic farms, which was... |
| Mar 3, 2022 | Canberra Data Centres tries to keep its emissions data secret | Canberra Data Centres is attempting to have its greenhouse gas emissions data from last year withheld from public release, on the grounds that the information is commercial in confidence.
The data centre provider has applied to the Clean En... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | Why AGL’s takeover bid saga is far from over | Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes. Source: supplied.
Australian companies are being taken over like never before. On Saturday February 19, a consortium involving tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Canadian asset manager Brookfi... |
| Feb 25, 2022 | Weekly Wrap #83: Scalapay's on a roll, a coal troll & new VCs unfold | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| Feb 23, 2022 | Mike Cannon-Brookes has invested a further $200 million into renewables, days after his bid to takeover energy giant AGL | Atlassian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has invested another $200 million into renewables. (Image: Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Atlassian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has committed further to a global fund targeting the Australian coal i... |
| Jul 16, 2021 | Could the World’s Largest Green Energy Hub Redefine How Companies Work With Indigenous People? | For the world to reach net zero emissions, huge fields of solar panels and towering wind turbines will need to cover vast tracts of the Earth. In much of the world, that means building in places where Indigenous people live and have rights ... |
| May 11, 2021 | Next-Gen Solar Panels Could Offer Cooler Operating Temps: Expect Higher Efficiencies, Reduced Degradation | Griffin Davis , Tech Times 11 May 2021, 08:05 am
Solar Panels are one of the innovations that are being focused on to help reduce energy consumption across the globe. This technology allows people to convert sunlight into electric energy. H... |
| Apr 3, 2021 | Антиматерию охладили, по твиттер-треду сделали кино. Техдайджест | Александр Носков 3 апреля 2021, 11:15 Антиматерию охладили, по твиттер-треду сделали кино. Техдайджест
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| Nov 28, 2020 | Morning Brief: Ambri deploying its calcium-antimony battery? China could install 75 GW of solar next year | Ambri aims to install 250 MWh of its calcium-antimony battery in a data center application in TerraScale’s Energos Reno project starting in 2021. Ambri is an MIT-spinoff that has been threatening to build and deploy a low-cost, long-duratio... |
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| Apr 28, 2020 | Morning Brief: New Zealand invests in flow batteries, ‘NextGrid’ goes off the rails | ‘NextGrid’ goes off the rails: The Illinois Commerce Commission’s “NextGrid: Illinois’ Utility of the Future” study, which began with grand hopes three years ago, ended with barely a whimper Friday. “This is really a terrific opportunity fo... |
| Feb 9, 2020 | Oil and gas giants Shell and Total get serious about solar | Oil and gas majors have made forays into solar power and renewable energy over the past decades but it always seemed more like public relations than full-on commitment.
That might be changing.
Reluctant oil efforts into solar and renewables... |
| Aug 26, 2019 | Schwarzenegger-backed start-up helps Australia wind farms duck negative prices | “As renewable penetration grows, market volatility will increase. Assets need to be smart, fast and able to accurately predict the forces impacting the electric grid ….batteries cannot be optimised with excel spreadsheets.”... |
| Feb 13, 2019 | pvMB 2/13/19: Tigo’s SMART website, DeKalb solar projects return… and more! | Tigo launches SMART website – “-Tigo today unveiled the updates to its SMART Website, the company’s next generation online monitoring platform. The SMART Website manages system-, string-, and module-level data for utility, commercial, and r... |
| Nov 26, 2018 | Change the rules, add powerlines to let renewables plus storage aim for 90% of the grid | There have been many analyses that show varying combinations of wind, solar, storage and transmission 100% powering the United States. The various projections debate pricing, capacity, political realities and other variables, but all of the... |
| Sep 25, 2018 | After working with Tesla’s Australia battery, wind company wants more batteries | Enlarge / Bloomberg Best of the Year 2017: Powerpacks which will be used to form the world's largest lithium-ion battery stand on display during a Tesla Inc. event at the Hornsdale wind farm, operated by Neoen SAS, near Jamestown, Sout... |
| May 18, 2018 | Solar and wind power will drive the value of energy storage, remaking the power grid | Despite a heavy build-out of gas plants over the last two decades, the United States is moving solidly in the direction of an electricity grid dominated by renewable energy. And as we reach higher penetrations, the needs change. Some of the... |
| Mar 13, 2017 | What China’s Coal Ban Is and What It Isn’t | On February 18, 2017, Beijing abruptly announced that it would suspend all coal imports from North Korea through the end of this year. China’s Ministry of Commerce explained the move as part of its effort to implement sanctions adopted Nove... |
| Feb 2, 2017 | We need cheap, clean and reliable power: How startups like Greensync can help | As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull noted in his National Press Club address yesterday, energy policy is all about balancing the trifecta of affordability, reliability and sustainability.
More commonly known as the “energy tri-lemma”, it can... |
| Oct 20, 2016 | Stunning price falls could spark another gold rush for U.S. solar market | Author: Sophie Vorrath, for RenewEconomy
Deutsche Bank’s U.S. solar market report, published on Wednesday, predicts solar module prices will drop to $0.35 per watt in Q4 2016, having already fallen already by one-third in Q3, down from $0.6... |
| Mar 4, 2016 | Adam Parris – Volta Prize | twitter twitter facebook
Adam is trying to fail his way to success by challenging the defaults (the status quo) that exist in our everyday life, to increase our living standards and decrease our cost of living. Adam got his first taste of b... |
| Oct 14, 2015 | South Australia Is Killing Coal Power and This Town is Doomed | Before 1982, old Leigh Creek sat on an area where the open-cut pit is today. Image via
It was the afternoon of the football grand final in the Leigh Creek pub and men with tanned skin and broad shoulders had brought their families to watch.... |
| Oct 13, 2015 | Economic complexity is the answer to Pyne’s innovation problem | Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has tasked new Innovation, Industry and Science Minister Christopher Pyne with making Australia’s economy more innovative.
The purpose of industry policy is to ensure Australia is prosperous, both ... |
| May 26, 2015 | Goldman Sachs Is Our Best Bet Against Climate Change | Bryan Birsic Contributor
Bryan Birsic is the CEO and co-founder of Wunder Capital
Although it may not be the obvious hero, usually more Vampire Squid than White Knight, Goldman Sachs and its cohorts could be responsible for transitioning th... |
| May 6, 2015 | The Tesla battery heralds the beginning of the end for fossil fuels | While wind and solar power have made great strides in recent years, with renewables now accounting for 22% of electric energy generated, the issue that has held them back has been their transience. The sun doesn’t shine at night and the win... |
| Aug 21, 2014 | Why the Renewable Energy Target never stood a chance | The Australian Financial Review, confirmed the worst fears of the renewable energy industry in a front-page story on Monday, reporting that the panel charged with reviewing the Renewable Energy Target had been “instructed” by Prime Minister... |
| Mar 12, 2014 | Policy uncertainty drives renewable energy investors overseas | Clean energy and low-carbon investors are abandoning Australia as the new federal government, and its conservative colleagues at state level, turn their interests and policies away from renewables and long-term carbon abatement incentives.
... |
| Sep 24, 2013 | Most Coalition MPs believe wind power industry is full of hot air | While Prime Minister Tony Abbott is still clinging to the bipartisan 20% Renewable Energy Target, finding explicit support for the construction of more wind farms from those within the government’s parliamentary ranks is another question.
A... |
| EGEB: The UK lifts four-year onshore wind-farm ban | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Prime Minister Boris Johnson lifts David Cameron’s UK moratorium on onshore wind farms.
Researchers in Scotland discover a new fuel-cell compound that could revolutionize green energy.
Germany ... |
| Tesla battery races to save Australia grid from coal plant crash – injecting 7MW in milliseconds | Tesla’s world record sized 100MW/129MWh lithium ion battery reacted within milliseconds when an Australia coal power plant removed itself from the power grid last Thursday. Technically, the Tesla battery responded to the trip event, and fin... |
| EGEB: Solar & Wind for ‘frequency response’, 22¢/kWh for solar in AU, Silfab/Morgan making new panels, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
National Grid to trial solar, wind in frequency response markets next year – Within the document National Grid said it ... |
| Germany shames the US and the rest of the world by planning to be 100% renewable energy by 2050 | This.
He talked about how the government is now aiming toward a 100% renewable electricity supply by 2050. The press release on this from the agency (from almost two years ago now) quotes Flasbarth as saying that “The results of the study d... |
| EGEB: Tunisian solar to Europe; US Climate Report leaked; Orlando for 100% clean energy; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Orlando City Council to vote on 100% clean energy goal – Orlando is a big city, if they start pushing toward clean energ... |
| EGEB: Russia hacking US grid, Tesla Powerpack Australia battery farm explained, invisibility cloak, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Explainer: What the Tesla big battery can and cannot do – Of the 100MW/129MWh, around 70MW of capacity is contracted to ... |
| EGEB: Scottish extraordinary renewable month, Nevada gets net metering back, I | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
‘Extraordinary’ month for Scottish renewable energy – “On one day in particular, 15 May, output from turbines generated ... |
| Tesla’s battery cost lead perfectly illustrated in one simple chart | Considering most specs about Tesla’s batteries are kept secret, it can sometimes be difficult to understand the company’s competitive advantage in this space. Experience and data are certainly important factors. Tesla was the first company ... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Walmart doing microgrids, Trina launches bifacial PERC solar panel, more | Wal-Mart, Advanced Microgrid Solutions to Turn Big-Box Stores Into Hybrid Electric Buildings – the-meter batteries at stores to balance on-site energy and provide megawatts of flexibility to utilities, starting with 40 megawatt-hours of pro... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Exxon CEO hid climate change talks, 50,000 battery systems in Germany, ¢6.3/kWh solar+storage, more | Exxon CEO hid climate change communications from legal probe – First off, #exxonknew and they continued to pay third parties to lie to the public about the effect of CO2 on climate change. And they know the bell will soon toll – the questio... |
| EGEB: US energy efficiency standards at risk, South Australia’s 100% goal, Pa. solar, and more | In today’s EGEB:
US energy efficiency standards have reached a state of uncertainty due to the DOE.
South Australia plans to be “net” 100% renewables by 2030.
A study shows how much Pennsylvania has to gain from solar.
Maryland gets a tall ... |
| EGEB: Blackout parties, 11% of new generation in Q1 solar, Tesla Utilities, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news
Blackout parties: how solar and storage made WA farmers the most popular in town – “People assume the grid is something r... |
| EGEB: Germany 35% renewables for six months, world’s first floating windfarm ‘mated’, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
America’s Farmers are Turning to Solar – The one line that made me grab this article: a 2017 report by the North Carolin... |
| Scotland blows away the competition – 106% of electricity needs from wind – joins select club | On Sunday, Scotland produced 106% of its electricity needs -over a 24 hour period – via wind farms. Scotland joins a select group of countries that have had peak moments (or days/months/forever) when their electricity needs comes from non-p... |
| Western Australia plans to build world’s largest clean energy hub | A site the size of greater Sydney may host a $100 billion project to convert wind and solar into green hydrogen in Western Australia. If built, it will become the world’s largest clean energy hub.
Australian renewable energy developer CWP G... |
| EGEB: 48 ways to kill environment; Scotland wind doubles electricity needs; World’s most sustainable office building; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source
Just another Manic Monday as windfarms power electricity surge – WWF Scotland analysed wind power ... |
| India sets plans for bidding off 20GW-30GW of solar power per year – starts with 3-6GW/month | India has laid out plans to auction off 20.6GW of solar power in their 2017-2018 fiscal year, with an additional plan to auction off 30GW in 2018-19 and the same 2019-20.
This volume is part of a 100GW goal of solar power to be built by 202... |
| Tesla’s massive solar+Powerwall virtual power plant could be 30% cheaper than grid power, says report | Earlier this month, Tesla announced that it reached a deal with the South Australian government to install solar arrays and Powerwalls on 50,000 homes to create the biggest virtual power plant in the world.
Now a new report shows just how e... |
| Electrek green energy brief: WorldBank loan at 0.25% for 750MW, Trump says no to ‘carbon tax’, more | 750MW solar park to get 0.25% loan from World Bank – This is just below the going rate for banks that borrow directly from the United States (or really rich people who have hard collateral). The World Bank does have political reasons for gi... |
| EGEB: $600M of solar savings in 1 day, Virginia carbon cap, Residential solar down 17%, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news
Apple’s New Campus: An Exclusive Look Inside the Mothership – Apple’s new building – header photo – is absolutely stunnin... |
| Electrek green energy brief: largest grid tied battery installed, solar power + drones, South Carolina solar?, more | 30MW/120MWh lithium battery system online in California – world’s largest grid-tied system: Key quote, ‘California Public Utilities Commissioner Michael Picker said, “I didn’t expect to see these kinds of prices in batteries until 2022, 202... |
| EGEB: Solar sedan and sports coupe; Heterojunction solar in Russia; Graham believes; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source
Solar sedan and sports coupe in race across Australia – and to commercial market – Clenergy TeamAr... |
| Electrek morning green energy brief: HVDC – Edison’s return, Wind farms not running, renewables need be doubled and more! | The world’s longest High Voltage DC line in India and America’s first – Energy storage and HVDC will be two key technologies that allow the power grid to significantly increase its use of intermittent energy sources. California has already ... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Climate change knowledge in 1912, new solar cell processing technique, ‘Green Gas,’ and more | ‘Green Gas’ is the new fossil fuel fashion accessory – The newest marketing line you’re going to hear is marketing ‘green gas power plants’ – natural gas plants connected with solar power. Natural gas and solar power are solid partners when... |
| EGEB: Record Solar bid – 1.78¢/kWh; IEA says solar domination; Storage powering Puerto Rico; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source
A bright future for renewables to 2022, solar PV entering a new era – Record performance in 2016 f... |
| EGEB: Kentucky’s new Democratic governor still backs coal, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Kentucky elected Democrat Andy Beshear yesterday as their new governor. What’s his stance on green energy?
Australia’s main grid reaches 50% green energy for the first time.
Bristol becomes the... |
| Tesla’s giant battery in Australia reduced grid service cost by 90% | Tesla’s giant Powerpack battery in Australia has been in operation for about 6 months now and we are just starting to discover the magnitude of its impact on the local energy market.
A new report now shows that it reduced the cost of the gr... |
| Why Australia’s largest coal-fired plant will close seven years early | Australia’s largest coal-fired power plant will close seven years earlier than originally planned. That’s because its operator, Origin Energy, says it’s unable to compete with renewables.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that links you to ... |
| EGEB: USA to meet Paris Agreement despite Trump, floating *rotating* solar power, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Renewable energy is becoming so cheap the US will meet Paris commitments even if Trump withdraws – “By our forecasts, in... |
| Electrek green energy brief: JinkoSolar going for 9GW in ’17, USA has lost a trade battle, mapping the grid, more | JinkoSolar gives 9GW of guidance for solar panels in 2017 – In 2015, the USA installed 7.3GW of solar power. In 2017 – this one company will manufacture 20% more than the US’ 2015 needs. In the 4th quarter 2016 – Jinko shipped 1.7GW of sola... |
| Solar power cost down 25% in five months – “There’s no reason why the cost of solar will ever increase again” | On Aug. 11 a bid of US$0.46/W was put forward to build 500MW of solar power in China (a roughly calculated levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) at $0.019/kWh). In the past week we saw a bid of $0.023/kWh to build 1.2GW of solar power in Abu... |
| EGEB: Tesla fights Australia, State level solar power rankings, 50MW wind turbine blade moving along, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
UPDATED 2018 State Solar Power Ranking Report – A great tool to start your residential solar power research with.
Tesla... |
| EGEB: 100GW?; CO2 lowering our nutrients; LONGi sets cell efficiency record; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
The great nutrient collapse – In 2004, a landmark study of fruits and vegetables found that everything from protein to c... |
| EGEB: Iowa Republican attacks Perry over fake energy study, coal plant failures, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news
Iowa senator slams energy chief for grid study undermining wind energy – Iowa’s Republican senator on Wednesday raised co... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Trump attacks Clean Power Plan, 5GW of batteries for Australia, more | Trump signs executive order to review Clean Power Plan – A couple of interesting points within the article – 1. The EPA, per the courts, is obligated to protect against CO2 – which has been defined as a pollutant. It seems that if the curre... |
| EGEB: Musk not so crazy; SolarCity pays Feds $29.5M; Scared of used solar panels?; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source
SolarCity to pay $29.5 million to settle federal probe – SolarCity said it installed 29,000 solar ... |
| Massachusetts’ advanced energy leadership = 1600MW Solar & Wind + 600MW Storage | Massachusetts is taking aggressive steps toward cleaning electrical grid and in doing so is joining a select group of regions around the world. Of course Germany and California get all the headlines, but also deserving are Portugal, Scotlan... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Turkey tax on Chinese solar, Chilean solar world’s best, more | Turkey to tax Chinese panels by size for price dumping violation – $20-25/m2 – comes out to be about $.10-.13/W. About ~$30 per solar panel. Interesting that Turkey just passed this ruling after a major solar panel manufacturer said they’d ... |
| EGEB: Australia solar and wind applications up 50X, solar electricity up 39% in USA in 2017, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Tesla solar shingles sold out ‘well into 2018’ – Mr. Musk need only sell enough solar shingles to sell out his factories... |
| EGEB: California’s solar surplus, UK solar, Australian project could add largest battery | In today’s EGEB:
California has to figure out how to utilize all of its solar power, and how to move forward.
Solar installations in the UK fell off a cliff last month.
Connecticut makes a huge commitment to offshore wind.
A huge Australian... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Shell had a hockey stick before Gore, Politician ‘shocked’ people like solar, more | Energy pricing increase slowed down in Australia where more renewables installed – The standard argument you hear from the politicians employed by the fossil groups is that renewables drive up the price of electricity…except – they don’t. I... |
| EGEB: Wind turbine art and music – oh my, global renewable grid, Sola Monstah!, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source.
Wind Turbines as Artistic Canvas – Senvion, a German wind turbine manufacturer supports local ar... |
| EGEB: Trump lawyer sues Greenpeace; Orlando electricity going up 8.5%; dual rotor wind ; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Trump’s lawyers sue Greenpeace over Dakota Pipeline, making jaw-dropping accusations – First: Energy Transfer Partners, ... |
| EGEB: Suniva tariff followup, slow German solar, quantum dots, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source
Big giveaway of my main takeaway of the solar tariff yesterday – If you’re buying higher efficienc... |
| EGEB: World’s largest solar park by drone; 60 ‘next generation’ storage proposals in Australia; more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source
S.A. tender attracts 60 proposals for “next-gen” renewables and storage – The Tesla-Neoen big batt... |
| EGEB: Smart V2G extends battery life, Massachusetts pushing smarter(Tesla)grid, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Baker-Polito Administration Announces Over $4.6 Million in Grants for Peak Demand Reduction Projects – The state has put... |
| EGEB: Suniva may be filing for ‘serious damage’, South Australia 80% wind+solar, Japan drops 25GW of solar, more | Suniva going to seek extreme protections against Chinese solar panels manufacturers – The company plans to lobby the International Trade Commission under Section 201 of the 1974 Trade Act — basically arguing that solar imports (not just Chi... |
| Electrek morning green energy brief: Solar forecasting improves, Hawaii requests wind projects, lithium mining growing and more! | Utility Scale solar forecasting tool from government labs – One challenge of managing intermittent energy sources is that our electricity grid (and all of our stuff) is designed to enjoy peaceful, consistent amounts of voltage and current. ... |
| I Was Wrong About the Limits of Solar; PV Is Becoming Dirt Cheap. | The price of solar power is falling faster than many thought was possible. Harvard’s David Keith comes honest with us about solar power: “Facts have changed. I was wrong.”
The unsubsidized electricity cost from industrial-scale solar PV in ... |
| Electrek green energy brief: 30% wind/solar no problem, Billionaires and the Australian grid, solar panel assembly video, more | Elon Musk & Mike Cannon-Brookes got into a twitter conversation – and the Prime Minister of Australia hopped in a little later. What’s it mean when a guy that sells batteries and solar power is spending time with world leaders? Means hi... |
| EGEB: Lyft going green, countries with more wind/solar have fewer blackouts, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Lyft says all of its self-driving electric cars will be powered by ‘100% renewable energy’ – First, Lyft is going to mov... |
| EGEB: Microsoft ditching Puget Sound Energy, $1,000,000,000,000 solar market, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Microsoft gets OK to buy renewable power directly, bypassing the fossil utility – “WA utility commission approved Micros... |
| EGEB: EVs displacing 28,000 barrels of oil per day, Solar 1 – HOA 0, 80GW+ solar in 2017, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
How Much Oil Are EVs Displacing? – 28,000 barrels a day predicted by the end of 2017 is the short answer – EVs are displ... |
| Tesla’s giant battery in Australia is already eating away at ‘gas cartel’s’ profits, report says | We already reported on how Tesla’s giant battery in Australia made around $1 million in just a few days by taking advantage of the country’s volatile energy market.
But now a new report shows how it is also eating away at the ‘gas cartel’s’... |
| Singapore completes one of the first floating solar farms in the sea | Singapore-based solar energy provider Sunseap says it has completed construction of a 5MW peak offshore floating solar farm in the Straits of Johor, between Singapore and Malaysia. It’s one of the world’s largest floating solar farms on sea... |
| These futurists say we can achieve 100% green energy by 2030 | Independent think tank RethinkX, which “analyzes and forecasts the speed and scale of technology-driven disruption,” has released a report that says that most of the world is technologically capable of achieving 100% wind, solar, and storag... |
| EGEB: ‘Clean coal’ failure, ‘small’ solar at $1/W, fake DOE study delayed, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Solar’s new sweet spot: Low cost, compact PV plants at $1/watt – 10.9MW solar plant at Barcaldine in Queensland will set... |
| EGEB: Solar car distance record, 50MW wind turbine – taller than Empire State Building, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
Nuon Solar Team – With 882 km we officially set the 12 hrs world record for solar racing. We dare all other @WorldSolar... |
| EGEB: Solar designed for 155MPH hurricane holds up, rooftop tracking solar, Eversource jack prices $3.6B?, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial and political review/analysis of important green energy news.
The header image is of the 27MW San Fermin solar plant in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria swept the island. ... |
| EGEB: UK’s 1st coal-free day since Industrial Revolution, 50GW US of utility solar, largest ever 4GWh battery system, more | Major Solar Projects List from the SEIA – The USA has about 45GW of solar power running currently. This report looks specifically at projects larger than 1MW – and they’ve got about 20GW worth in the database. More interesting is that there... |
| Tesla in talks with Australian utilities to fix country’s power problems by deploying large-scale energy storage | At the launch of the Tesla Powerwall 2 in Australia yesterday, Lyndon Rive, SolarCity’s former CEO who is now Tesla’s Vice President of Energy products since the acquisition, said that the company is in talks with local utilities to quickly... |
