A report released last week reveals the world’s big banks increased “extreme” fossil fuel financing last year, but there was a glimmer of silver lining on the coal black clouds hanging over Australian banks.
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First Fully Thai-Made Redflow Batteries Roll Off Production Line
Australian energy storage company Redflow says it is on schedule to start commercial production of complete ZBM2 zinc-bromine flow batteries in Thailand by June.
[Continue reading…]Rise Of Renewables Pushing Down UK Energy Sector Emissions
The UK is continuing to break renewable energy records and making headway on carbon emissions reduction, while coal power is laying bleeding in the gutter.
[Continue reading…]Does Virtual Powerline Technology Make SA-NSW Inconnector Obsolete Before It’s Built?
The cornerstone of the new South Australian Liberal government’s energy policy, a new $740 million electricity interconnector with NSW, may be rendered obsolete before construction has even begun thanks to a new blockchain based ‘virtual powerline’ being built between the two states. The technology was developed by the US company BiTchain and has already avoided the […]
[Continue reading…]100 Schools Join Victoria’s Greener Government School Buildings Pilot
The one hundred schools participating in a Victorian Government program seeking to drive down school carbon emissions and energy costs have been named.
[Continue reading…]STP Knob Turned The Right Way For Small-Scale Solar Power
Tony Abbott and Craig Kelly may be gearing up for more bluster after news knob-fiddling that relates to Australia’s solar subsidy has gone the right way.
[Continue reading…]The Six Biggest Myths About Battery Storage
I’ve been publishing thoughts on the solar industry since 2009. And since Tesla announced their Powerwall battery to great media hype in May 2015, a lot of those thoughts have concerned batteries. Unfortunately, a lot of the facts I’ve published about batteries, their economics and their environmental impacts have not gone down well with some […]
[Continue reading…]Germany’s SolarWorld Starts Bankruptcy Proceedings (Again)
Just months after Germany’s SolarWorld AG was resurrected as SolarWorld Industries GmbH, the new company has filed for bankruptcy.
[Continue reading…]Kelly Compares Replacing Liddell With Renewables To A Dog With Rabies
NSW Liberal MP Craig Kelly has said replacing Liddell Power Station with solar panels, wind turbines and batteries is “as dangerous to the economy as rabies is in a dog”.
[Continue reading…]JinkoSolar’s Stellar Solar Panel Shipment Tally
JinkoSolar recently announced it had shipped a very impressive 9,807 MW of solar panel capacity in 2017, a 47.3% increase on 2016 – and the company expects to better last year’s figure in 2018.
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