off-grid

Microsoft commissions California’s largest “renewable gas” microgrid

Microsoft contracts Enchanted Rock to develop a data center microgrid – the largest in California to date that will use…

June 16, 2022

No more data “not spots,” as Vodafone pilots off-grid mobile phone tower

The “self-powering” mobile mast incorporates a small wind turbine, solar and battery storage and aims to solve the problem of…

June 16, 2022

Build it and they will come: How an off-grid community made the switch to EVs

Moora Moora was first established as an off-grid co-operative community in 1974 and has grown, since then, to host 30…

October 3, 2021

“Off grid” solar and battery data centre network extends to Bendigo

Plans to build a network of around 20 solar and battery powered regional Australian data centres "from Cairns to Geelong"…

September 17, 2021

Tasmania’s Maria Island to be powered by solar and battery microgrid

Tasmania government calls for tenders to design and build a solar and battery system at the World Heritage-listed "island national…

November 23, 2020

Remote Queensland communities set to cut costs with solar power

Two remote Queensland communities will cut their diesel costs, through the installation of solar, under a state government initiative.

July 16, 2020

We lost our house in summer bushfires. Now we’re going underground and off the grid

Don Pattison lost his house and just about everything in it during the horrific fire season of 2019/20. But this…

July 7, 2020

Solar + Redflow batteries to slash costs, beat heat at outback cattle station

Solar plus 40kWh Redflow zinc-bromine flow batteries allow outback W.A. cattle station to operate completely off-grid, save $10,000 a year…

February 5, 2020

Three cheers for stand-alone power systems in regional W.A.

After three years and 200-plus hours of power outages saved across six properties, stand-alone power systems are the front-runner technology…

November 15, 2019

Africa gold mine to install huge solar and battery system, slash fuel costs

Canadian gold-mining company B2Gold to install one of world’s largest off-grid solar battery hybrid systems at the Fekola gold mine…

October 15, 2019