$70 million fund opens to innovate heavy industry decarbonisation
Only innovators need apply: ARENA opens second round of industrial transformation stream funding offering $70 million to support technology development to help industry decarbonise.
Sydney researchers advance halide perovskite cell stabilisation
University of Sydney researchers have suppressed ion migration in halide perovskites specifically at the B-site, paving a way for cell stabilisation by minimising energy loss and improving performance reliability.
Renewables are cheap. So why isn’t your power bill falling?
Power prices are set to go up again even though renewables now account for 40% of the electricity in Australia’s main grid – close to quadruple the clean power we had just 15 years ago. How can that be, given renewables are the cheapest form of newly built power generation?
NT solar centre data feeds ultra-short-term PV forecasting method
Scientists utilising data gathered at the Northern Territory’s Desert Knowledge Australia Solar Centre have created a novel probabilistic model for five-minutes ahead PV power forecasting. The method combines a convolutional neural network with bidirectional long short-term memory, attention mechanism, and natural gradient boosting.
Endeavour Energy plans rollout of community batteries in Illawarra region
New South Wales distribution network operator Endeavour Energy will install four community batteries on council land in the Wollongong region, with a further 13 suitable sites identified across the Illawarra.
Trina Storage Elementa 2 Pro 5 MWh unveiled in Australia
China-headquartered energy storage solutions company and business unit of Trinasolar, Trina Storage has unveiled its next-generation Elementa 2 Pro 5 MWh energy storage system to the Australian market.
Neara infrastructure modelling offers disaster blackout fatigue solution
More than 300,000 residents in Queensland and northern New South Wales were left without power earlier this month after Cyclone Alfred battered the region, prompting Sydney-based infrastructure management solutions company Neara to say current energy models are no longer viable in an increasingly volatile climate.
Search for New England REZ network operator begins
Australia’s largest planned renewable energy zone has reached another milestone with the New South Wales government launching the search for a network operator to help deliver the New England REZ that is to provide at least 8 GW of new network capacity.
How to identify interruption of ribbons in solar modules
An international group of scientists have investigated the total or partial interruptions of ribbons that connect solar cells in modules and have proposed a classification based on their type and location.
Carnegie secures more funding for Spain wave energy project
Australian wave energy developer Carnegie Clean Energy has secured more than $545,000 in funding to push forward its plans to deliver and operate a 400 kW version of its ‘CETO’ wave power generation system in waters off the coast of Spain.
