Renewable Energy News

Leading battery and solar inverter manufacturer SMA says it achieved a sales record of 8.2 GW of inverter capacity last year, approximately 11% more than in 2015.

Researchers in Australia have developed a new type of electrode that radically increases the energy storage capacity of supercapacitors and could lead to flexible, thin film self-contained solar capture and storage devices.

The sun has been shining for about 4.5 billion years but there aren’t that many people who have been in the solar energy business more than a quarter of a century in Australia and New Zealand. Those that have were invited to a get-together in Sydney in late March to reflect on old times and bath in a bit of glory about how far the industry has come.

After nearly 50 years of operations, one of the world’s heaviest carbon polluting electricity generators – Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley – is now offline.

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