All NSW’s BP service stations to be solar powered under new Snowy Hydro deal
All of BP’s service stations in New South Wales will be fuelled entirely by solar energy after Lightsource BP signed a power purchasing agreement with Snowy Hydro allowing it to move ahead with its 107 MWdc solar farm in the Riverina Region of New South Wales.
Gladstone to host $500m solar to hydrogen plant
London-based Eco Energy World, which is already developing at 300 MW solar project north of Gladstone, Queensland, has announced that it is going to combine the solar plant with a 200 MW hydrogen plant and 100 MW of energy storage for green hydrogen exports to the global market.
Big battery to replace country’s dirtiest coal power plant, Yallourn, as early closure announced
EnergyAustralia today announced it would be closing Australia’s most carbon-intensive coal power station, Yallourn, four years early and building a 350 MW utility-scale battery at the Latrobe Valley site instead.
NSW company wins ‘prestigious’ global hydrogen award for pioneering heat reaction technology
Australian hydrogen research and development company, Star Scientific, has won a World Hydrogen Award for its patented HERO technology, which caused a flurry of excitement in 2020 and shows no signs of abating.
Passive solar module cooling based on hydrogels beads and nanofluids
A British-Egyptian research group has tested the use of hydrogels beads for PV module cooling. The micro-sized particles were saturated with aluminium oxide (Al2O3) water-based nanofluids and placed below the simulated PV panels. The experiment showed, according to the scientists, that the hydrogels beads were able to significantly reduce the temperature by between 17.9 and 16.3 degrees Celsius.
Solid-state batteries in space
Japanese scientists are about to launch solid-state batteries into space.
Hybrid operational strategy to use lithium-ion storage in commercial PV arrays
Lithium-ion batteries can not only improve self-consumption in commercial PV systems but are also able to efficiently perform peak shaving and price arbitrage, according to an international research group which has proposed a new strategy to calculate the best system configuration in terms of costs and revenue. The scientists specified, however, that the novel strategy may become effective only if storage system prices will drop under $250/kWh.
AGL acquires two PV businesses to become Australia’s largest commercial solar provider
AGL will acquire Epho and Solgen Energy Group – propelling the energy giant to the jarring position of being both Australia’s largest climate polluter and its largest commercial solar provider.
Brisbane-based flow battery company secures its largest sale at $1.5 million
Australian company Redflow has made its single largest sale, supplying 192 zinc-bromine flow batteries to waste conversion specialists Anaergia for US$1.2 million.
World-leading vanadium project awarded Major Project Status by Federal Government, progressing redox flow battery industry in NT
Australian mining technology company TNG Limited has had its flagship Mount Peake Project, which includes production plans for vanadium redox flow batteries and green hydrogen, recognised as nationally signifiant.
