The ARENA-funded ITP Battery Trial is pitting a long list of storage technologies against the elements. Which ones will make it and which will fizzle out? The ITP Renewables team sent this update from its Canberra laboratory.
With solar panels and a solar battery powering their home, Terry and his wife are part of a small but growing community of Australians who are ahead of the energy curve, taking energy production into their own hands.
Spring has barely arrived, and bushfires are burning across Australia’s eastern seaboard. More than 50 fires are currently burning in New South Wales, and some 15,000 hectares have burned in Queensland since late last week.
Victorian solar feed-in tariffs determine how much residents get for the electricity their solar panels feed into the grid.