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North American giant enters Australia market to take suburbs off the grid

November 5, 2015 by Giles Parkinson 7 Comments

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.

Filed Under: Battery/Storage, Solar

German village of Feldheim is now off grid for consumption

September 11, 2015 by Craig Morris 2 Comments

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With the installation of a 10-megawatt battery, the village of Feldheim near Berlin is now truly independent of electricity from outside.

Filed Under: Battery/Storage

How an outback town proposes to switch off fossil fuels

March 31, 2015 by Giles Parkinson Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Battery/Storage, Solar

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