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FACTS: Feed-in or fed-up - a flawed solar incentive
Here in Victoria, Australia, homes with solar systems on their roofs are about to get access to a feed-in tariff scheme that Peter Bachelor, the Minister for Energy and resources, claims is "a pillar of...
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SMART ENERGY: The open community smart grid
You may have heard of the smart grid initiative being rolled out across our cities and run by big utility companies, but have you asked why this initiative only delivers what the utility companies want?...
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SMART ENERGY: The EV fleet: our future energy storage network
To make renewables work well our smart energy future is going to require lots and lots of battery storage, because if the wind's not blowing and the sun's not shining, where else will all the...
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FACTS: Electrons, electrons everywhere, what's this got to do with my en...
Well plenty! You see, we literally live in a sea of them. Fundamentally we are made from them (and other atoms...), and we use a hell of a lot of them to do things for...
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SMART ENERGY: The Canadians go and build the first integrated Solar Comm...
Trust the Canadians to go and do it, build 52 homes that put true smart community energy into practice. This project was made possible by integrating energy efficient technologies with renewable energy sources like the...
