Posts By Michael Bloch On SolarQuotes

Final Green Light For Nuclear SMR Design From US Feds

NuScale SMR (small modular reactor) power plant

It’s official – the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has published its final rule giving the thumbs-up to NuScale Power’s small modular reactor, the first SMR design certified by the NRC. [Read more…]

UWA On Its Way To Energy Carbon Neutrality

The University of Western Australia - renewable energy

The University of Western Australia is aiming to be an “energy-neutral” campus by 2025, and of course solar energy is playing a role. [Read more…]

Peter Dutton’s Home Battery Claim Half-Baked

Peter Dutton on home batteries

Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s assumptions about home battery performance could do with some tweaking. [Read more…]

Climate Change A Hot Topic For SA’s City Of Onkaparinga

City of Onkaparinga - climate emergency declaration

Police were called to a council meeting in Adelaide’s southern suburbs on Monday night after things got a little heated. One of the items on the agenda was in relation to climate change. [Read more…]

2022 A Weird Year For Australian Home Solar

Solar installations in Australia - 2022

New figures from the Clean Energy Regulator provide an initial look at the number of small-scale solar power system installations in Australia last year. [Read more…]

Towards Net-Zero: Critical Minerals Grants Guidelines Released

Critical minerals - Australia

The Albanese Government has released guidelines for a new grants program to support the development of Australia’s critical minerals sector, which has the potential to play a much bigger role in global efforts to slash greenhouse gas emissions. [Read more…]

Renewables Could Improve Healthcare For A *Billion* People

Renewable Energy In Healthcare

Close to a billion people across the planet are served by healthcare facilities with unreliable access to electricity, or none at all. This is a life and death situation that can be addressed with renewable energy states a new report. [Read more…]

Making The Most Of Queensland’s Battery Boom

Battery industry opportunities for Queensland

Stakeholders have the opportunity to help shape Queensland’s future battery industry after a discussion paper was released yesterday by Acting Premier Steven Miles. [Read more…]

Monster Mine Truck’s Monster Battery Arrives In Australia

Battery electric T 264 mine haul truck

WAE Technologies has delivered a really big battery to Australia – said to be the largest of its kind – for a really big prototype zero-emission battery electric mining haul truck. [Read more…]

Hybrid Systems Australia Secures WA Schools VPP Project Slice

WA Schools VPP Pilot

Hybrid Systems Australia will be installing four fairly chunky solar and battery setups for a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) pilot project in Western Australia. [Read more…]

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