Energy Efficiency

Demand response for households – how does it work, and can it really earn you money?

Amber Electric is a power retailer that wants its customers to use more power at cheap times, and less power…

February 21, 2019

Aged care company to cut grid power consumption in half with solar, LED lighting

Opal Aged Care to install more than 3.4MW solar PV and 28,000 LED lights at 54 properties across NSW, Victoria…

December 6, 2018

Alinta turns to geothermal energy for sustainable heating and cooling in new suburbs

Alinta launches "Australia first" geothermal heating and cooling technology – focused on new suburbs and the displacement of energy intensive…

November 22, 2018

Brisbane classroom goes "fair-dinkum" off-grid, using solar and Tesla battery

NSW company Hivve Technology has installed an entirely off-grid modular classroom at a Brisbane high school, which runs entirely on…

November 1, 2018

CSIRO tenders for 2MW more rooftop solar, to cut energy costs by nearly $1m a year

CSIRO reveals plans to add further 1MW of rooftop solar at Canberra Black Mountain facility, and another 1.2MW across its…

October 22, 2018

Solar hybrid irrigation pump cuts NSW cotton grower's fuel bill in half

A cotton farm in regional NSW has halved its annual diesel fuel consumption, with the installation of what's being dubbed…

September 24, 2018

Solar Analytics buys Matter ahead of equity raising, expansion plans

Solar Analytics acquires PV-sharing startup, Matter, as it prepares to launch into a second stage of expansion and product development.

August 22, 2018

Redflow batteries help power new beginning for heritage-listed Adelaide building

SA architecture taps home grown energy storage solution to get around a power supply problem that cropped up in the…

August 22, 2018

How business can keep energy costs below 10c/kWh

New report shows taking part in demand response activities could save businesses up to 33 per cent on their power…

August 9, 2018

Victorian town plans "smart energy precinct" to halve industry power costs

Local business and community in coastal town of Port Fairy begin work on developing multi-million dollar, renewables-based smart energy precinct.

August 1, 2018