Can portable, personal cooling devices keep you cool in summer? And what are the potential energy/carbon benefits? I tested two quite different personal air conditioners.
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets
Northern Territory Labor government opens $2m grant scheme to encourage councils to move to better energy efficient infrastructure and reduce costs to consumers and taxpayers.
Posted in Battery/Storage, Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Solar
Teys Australia unveils $42m plan to make one of its NSW facilities completely energy self sufficient via technologies including solar, storage, solid waste digestion and biomass boilers.
Posted in Battery/Storage, Energy Efficiency, Other Renewables, Solar
Amber Electric is a power retailer that wants its customers to use more power at cheap times, and less power at expensive times. Sound suspicious? Here's how – and why – it works.
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets, Solar, Tariffs
Opal Aged Care to install more than 3.4MW solar PV and 28,000 LED lights at 54 properties across NSW, Victoria and Queensland, and cut its grid power consumption by 42%.
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Solar
Alinta launches "Australia first" geothermal heating and cooling technology – focused on new suburbs and the displacement of energy intensive reverse-cycle air-conditioning.
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Other Renewables
NSW company Hivve Technology has installed an entirely off-grid modular classroom at a Brisbane high school, which runs entirely on solar and battery storage, at a cost cheaper than connecting to the grid.
Posted in Battery/Storage, Energy Efficiency, Solar
CSIRO reveals plans to add further 1MW of rooftop solar at Canberra Black Mountain facility, and another 1.2MW across its sites in Queensland and South Australia.
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A cotton farm in regional NSW has halved its annual diesel fuel consumption, with the installation of what's being dubbed Australia’s largest solar hybrid irrigation pump.
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Solar
Solar Analytics acquires PV-sharing startup, Matter, as it prepares to launch into a second stage of expansion and product development.
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets, Solar