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Australia installed more than 900 MW of solar in 2014, equivalent to two per cent of the global PV market, according to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Trends 2015: In Photovoltaic Applications report.
Australia fell from seventh place in 2012, but improved on its tenth position in 2013 to make it to eighth place in 2014. The top 10 global PV markets in 2014 were:
University of Waterloo researchers have created a lithium-ion battery with a silicon anode that they say will result in cheaper, smaller and longer lasting energy storage devices.
Convention lithium-ion batteries use graphite anodes and this creates somewhat of a performance bottleneck due to the limitations of the material, which can only provide an energy density of ~150 Wh kg-1.
The nation’s first utility company to use 100 per cent renewable energy set up shop this week in Adelaide, South Australia.
ZEN Energy has emerged from an already existing company in Adelaide, Zen Industries, which is a storage and solar business.
With assistance from Zen Industries, a range of domestic and commercial on and off-grid renewable energy applications are being provided by ZEN Energy, in a variety of areas.
Reports that US solar thermal giant SolarReserve has made a bid to build Australia’s first-ever solar thermal plant with storage in Port Augusta is a fantastic step towards the national goal of at least 50% renewable energy by 2030, according to Solar Citizens.
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