It is expected that in roughly three years energy storage in Australian households will be 'the norm', thanks to it's cost-effective nature. Enphase Energy, a technology company based in California, says that this change is...
Denman Prospect in western Canberra, will soon be Australia's first suburb that requires solar panels to be installed on every home. Capital Estate Developments have said that Denman's new design and building guidelines have a...
Just under two weeks ago SolarCity announced their most efficient solar panel, however Panasonic has quickly surpassed them with their high-powered photovoltaic module they recently released. SolarCity bragged of a module efficiency exceeding approximately 22...
London's Canary Wharf complex will soon have four incredible new solar powered 'smart benches' that allow you to charge your phone while on the go. These 'Strawberry Smart Benches' developed by Strawberry Energy will utilize...
Places that may have previously been seen as an unlikely power source are now possible with the advent of smarter solar. The future of solar energy will no longer be confined to rooftops or vast...
A new breakthrough called rectenna technology has allowed scientists to convert sunlight straight into direct current electricity. Researchers at Georgia Tech are claiming that this technology will be the next to revolutionise the renewable energy...
Solar city has recently created the world's most efficient rooftop solar panel that includes a 22 per cent conversion efficiency. The sun-powered startup that was founded by Lyndon and Peter Rive (Elon Musk's cousins), SolarCity,...
Harvard researchers believe that flow cell batteries, an exciting new storage technology could be a rival to the Tesla Powerwall battery storage system. Professor Michael Aziz claims the new battery technology he is developing with...
WA company Western Power is considering taking small communities off-grid completely with solar plus storage in order to save on network upgrade and extension costs. Recently, Western Power released a tender for a maximum of...
Panasonic is known to be the industry pioneer when it comes to solar power, and their new product expansion plans demonstrate nothing less. Panasonic aims to increase its solar module production capacity to a maximum...
A promising design in wind turbines has recently been developed by Iowa State Aerospace engineers Hui Hu and Anupam Sharma. After exploring the idea of adding a smaller secondary rotor to an existing wind turbine,...
According to a new report, battery storage systems could be being installed in Australian households at a huge rate of 55,000 per year within a decade. Research group Energeia has developed a report that estimates...
A limited range has been the main obstacle in electric vehicle widespread adoption, however this may change for the better with the recent experimental success of some South Korean scientists. These scientists have developed a...
The newest innovation in renewable wind energy is making waves in the energy market Vortex Bladeless is a wind turbine without the turbine essentially a hollow strawlike structure standing metres high This bladeless wind turbine...
Leading battery technology company, Faradion, may have developed a better alternative to lithium-ion batteries. This British company has been working on a revolutionary sodium ion battery in partnership with Williams Advanced Engineering, a firm that...
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has officially unveiled the Powerwall along with it's new Tesla Energy program that will be available in Australia later this year. Telsa Energy is moving beyond electric vehicles and branching...
