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Renewable Energy News
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced yesterday it would be providing nearly $14 million in funding for solar/storage related projects worth a total of $44.8 million.
A $6.6 million solar farm is to be constructed at Australia’s University of New England (UNE) campus just outside of Armidale in northern central New South Wales.
The clean power station is expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2018 and will supply up to half of the University’s electricity requirements.
CSIRO’s Discovery Centre at Black Mountain, Canberra last week took delivery of the first two of ten electric cars, plus a couple more electric bikes – and they’ll all be powered by the sun.
The latest vehicles join the 36 electric/petrol hybrid cars added to CSIRO Fleet in 2015 to replace petrol-only vehicles.
It may never appear on residential rooftops, but this bacteria powered solar panel marks an interesting advancement in novel ways of harnessing solar energy.
Researchers at Binghamton University’s Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science have connected nine biological-solar (bio-solar) cells into a bio-solar panel. It’s the first time this has been done and the device generates the highest level of wattage achieved with small bio-solar cells so far – 5.59 microwatts (there are 1,000,000 microwatts in a watt).
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