Victoria’s Solar Homes program filled its monthly quota in just three days when the hugely popular scheme re-opened for business on July 1, 2019. The speed of the uptake breaks records for the State Government program, prompting the Smart Energy Council (SEC) to call on the government to expand it.
The global cost of storage batteries continues to fall. Yet future energy storage methods look beyond lithium-ion batteries to a wealth of innovative solutions.
Edward Treloar is a fourth year engineering student from the Australian National University, majoring in renewable energy systems. He has written the following article about the misrepresentation of the coal industry as a hotspot for jobs and that renewables are merely the environmental option, rather than a green energy jobs creator.
Despite continued investment in renewable energy, the clean energy transformation can only happen at a national scale with long-term renewable storage. Writing in CleanTechnica, technologist Steve Hanley says the electricity industry is waiting for new technology to push past the current two to four hours of large-scale battery storage.