North American asset management giant Brookfield and its utility offshoot look to use solar and storage to remove need for new housing developments to connect to the grid. First stop: the Hunter Valley.
off-grid towns
German village of Feldheim is now off grid for consumption
With the installation of a 10-megawatt battery, the village of Feldheim near Berlin is now truly independent of electricity from outside.
How an outback town proposes to switch off fossil fuels
The outback town Coober Pedy in remote South Australia will be able to turn off its fossil fuel generators for at least half of the year under a proposed solar-wind-battery hybrid model to be built by the town’s main electricity supplier. Coober Pedy – known as the Opal Capital of Australia – was last year […]