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Australia's biggest battery project slashes footprint by 20 pct as it mulls multi-gigawatt hour extension
8+ hour, 1+ min ago (508+ words) Sunday, August 16, 2026 The owners and suppliers of Australia’s biggest battery project say they have slashed the footprint of the facility by 20 per cent, and confirmed they are now mulling a multi-gigawatt hour extension that would make it the first in…...
S-curve modelling says renewables can kick coal out of Australia by 2032. But is this soon enough?
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (1372+ words) Over the years I became more and more despondent and angry as I saw decade after decade of climate science ignored, as climate record after record collapsed. I saw COP after COP fail ignominiously as commercial vested interests prevailed over…...
CEFC boss says funding deals for new wind and solar farms to power giant smelter still to be sorted
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (955+ words) The head of the country’s green bank says the fine details of its role in the transition of the Tomago aluminium smelter’s electricity supply from black to green is still being worked out, underlining the amount of work that still…...
"It's a commercial system. And it has a customer:" Sodium-ion battery sale hailed as a first for Australia
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (603+ words) Friday, August 14, 2026 Foton Pty Ltd, which is the name of the exclusive Australian distributor of the battery storage technologies of China-based global manufacture Cospowers, said on Wednesday that it has sold its first ever C&I battery with sodium-ion chemistry,…...
Biggest barrier to electrifying apartments? Knowing what’s possible | SwitchedOn Australia
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (213+ words) Friday, August 14, 2026 Electrifying an apartment building can be complicated, but sometimes the biggest barrier is simply getting started. Ash Sayers, Director at Keystone, a Melbourne strata management company, explains why residents and owners corporations often assume solar, batteries and EV…...
Balcony solar or building integrated PV? The emerging options for apartment dwellers and owners.
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (447+ words) Friday, August 14, 2026 A Victorian parliamentary inquiry on apartment energy issues has recently reported and identified several issues that require urgent attention to address the failures of energy policy. One interesting issue that relates to both high rise apartments, and plug-in…...
Construction begins on network company's first foray into grid-scale battery storage
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (388+ words) Friday, August 14, 2026 The first sod has been turned at a the site of a big battery being developed in Newcastle, New South Wales, marking the beginning of construction for the project and a new milestone for distribution network company Ausgrid’s…...
From niche technology to 500,000 households "taking control:" Cheaper Home Batteries hits half-million milestone
3+ day, 15+ min ago (1192+ words) Friday, August 14, 2026 The number of home batteries installed under federal Labor’s rebate scheme has passed the half-million mark, a huge new milestone for the hugely successful policy that is further slashing household electricity bills while also delivering “enormous benefits” to…...
Researchers "froth" over new solar recycling method that recovers 99 pct of silver from used panels
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (715+ words) Silver from solar-16, held by associate professor Mahshid Firouzi. Image University of Newcastle A new take on a widely used mining technique called froth flotation can recover “virtually all” of the metallic silver contained within an end-of-life solar panel, researchers…...
What five Fijian sparkies taught me about remote, off-grid solar and battery systems
3+ day, 8+ hour ago (642+ words) Thursday, August 13, 2026 When I was sent to the Yasawa Islands in Fiji to commission a 1.6 megawatt-hour off-grid solar battery installation across three remote island resorts, I thought I had a good handle on what the job required. Commission the system....