This is a heart-warming story. Imagine a train that is fully powered by the sun. Sounds ideal doesn’t it? If it could be done it would have to be a world’s first, right? Well, it has been done and somehow it seems appropriate it was done in the seaside town of Byron Bay. Here is […]
In thinking about balancing the supply renewable energy with demand, we were reminded of an interesting idea we reported on 11 years ago. The article was about the use of plug in hybrid cars as part of the grid. Engineer, Richard Hunwick, put forward the proposal. It was a very good concept, but what’s happened
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Back in 2017 we had a newsletter item about a trial program in Perth where people with solar panels could sell their excess power to each other but not back to the grid. It raised a lot of interesting ideas about the use of ‘blockchain’ software and the balancing of supply and demand of electricity.
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The Australian Solar Council puts out regular bulletins on all things solar. Two recent releases caught our attention. They are both related. The first looks at the contribution solar energy makes to the grid during peak times and the second looks at its effect on electricity pricing. Here is an extract of the two articles.
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The world is moving toward net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Australia is looking ahead to becoming a renewable energy leader. Those aspirations are totally
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As the world continues to act and move toward a more sustainable future, environmentally sustainable design (ESD) is becoming increasingly important. The NSW Department of
