One Step Off The Grid
Solar, storage and distributed energy news
A heritage listed former chewing gum factory turned apartment complex will use solar PV and behind the meter technology to supply residents with power up to 20% cheaper than retail market.
It was love at first sight for Richard and Robin Kinley. But it took a sunset to seal the deal.
Automated emissions reduction technology presents an opportunity for companies to address both green and smart customer desires.
A combined heat and power microgrid at a Texas hospital benefits the larger community, thanks to a utility/customer partnership.
There’s a simple and achievable way to ensure electricity grid reliability on extreme heat days, and it's on and under our own roofs.
Heatwaves across much of the country this summer have revealed a serious problem with our national housing stock.
Australian property group completes its latest major commercial rooftop solar installation, a 925kW array at Wetherill Park Shopping Centre.
Australia's "busiest regional airport" adds 100kW of rooftop solar to cut electricity costs, boost security of supply in North Western Victoria.
At the moment it is de rigeur to try to seal off every last little crack in the envelope of one’s house in order to save energy. But there is another side to this issue: you also have to breathe!
From next year Google will purchase 100 per cent of the energy it uses from renewable sources, mostly wind and solar. Because it is cheaper.
Oxford County, Ontario, has just opened a wind farm as part of a project to go 100% renewables for electricity and heat.
Report from Australia's main network lobby and CSIRO suggests that by 2050, nearly half of all future generation – and storage – will be on site in homes, business and communities.
Solar + battery storage optimisation platform by CSIRO-backed start-up Evergen to be installed in 10 NSW low-income households in first of a kind pilot program.
Australian property group Stockland has unveiled its 8-star energy rated zero emissions house at the company’s Willowdale community development in Sydney’s west.
New EU study finds that 83% of European households could eventually become “energy citizens.” Nearly two-thirds of them, so roughly half of all households, could make their own energy.
Efforts to make a cleaner cookstove to combat indoor air pollution from open fires have long failed to live up to their promise, but that might be changing.
