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The International Energy Agency’s latest report warns that failing to support integration at the point of deployment could jeopardise up to 15% of solar and wind projects by 2030. This shortfall would reduce their combined share of the global electricity mix by 5%.

Spanish PV company Soltec and Aplitop have partnered to develop a computer-aided design plug-in application aimed at simplifying the planning process and reducing earth-moving operations, measurements, and the relocation of solar trackers in ground-mounted PV projects.

Victorian commercial solar installation specialist Energy Aware has designed a unique rooftop solar system for agribusiness group Elders on their 35,000 square metre wool handling hub outside Melbourne.

In a laboratory setting, researchers from two Sydney-based universities are working to dramatically reduce time to anneal pervoskite cells, paving the way to replace toxic disposable battery sensors with a sustainable power source.

It took eight years of field measurements for researchers at the RWTH Aachen University in Germany to estimate the usable capacity of home battery energy storage systems and develop a dataset covering 106 system years and 14 billion datapoints. Their key finding was that home battery systems lose about two to three percentage points of usable capacity per year on average, meaning good news for the industry as most warranties in the market can be met with the implementation of capacity reserves.

A new Climate Council report suggests the total potential rooftop solar capacity in Australia is 103 GW, or four times more than currently installed, and 1.5 times the capacity of utility-scale electricity generators in the National Electricity Market.

South Australia Flinders University researchers, in collaboration with Griffith University, have published findings into aqueous zinc-ion batteries studies, as a more sustainable energy storage technology alternative to lithium-ion batteries.

The 300 MW Cambridge Solar Farm and battery energy storage system proposed for north Queensland has received an environmental tick of approval by the federal government.

The Solomon Islands Renewable Energy Development Project will finance two solar farms and a utility-scale grid-connected energy storage system on the Solomon Islands. The Asian Development Bank, SAsian Development Bank and Solomon Power are all financing the project.

Paxos Solar has developed a new glass-glass PV tile that integrates with heat pumps, featuring Longi’s back-contact solar cells. The 44 W, 59.5 cm x 48 cm tile can also produce heat for residential systems.