The Mysterious Case Of The Missing Metallic Hydrogen
Just a few months after the first time it had been created in history, a metal with potential for energy storage and other electricity related applications has disappeared. In January, Harvard scientists reported they had succeeded in creating the rarest material on the planet, atomic metallic hydrogen. It’s so rare, it’s apparently never existed on […]
Pumped Hydro Storage Key To 100% Renewables In Australia
Pumped hydro storage could deliver Australia an electricity grid supplied by 100 percent renewable energy says a new Australian National University (ANU) study . The report comes as political leaders battle over the future of clean energy targets, power prices and the issue of wind and solar power in the nation’s electricity mix. “With Australia wrestling […]
Batteries That Beat Blackouts – Sonnen Protect Now In Australia
An innovative small add-on device for popular German-made sonnen battery systems that enables households to have backup power in blackouts is now available in Australia. One of the issues with most existing home battery systems is they can’t provide power during a blackout. Most houses with solar power systems + storage are in exactly the […]
Solar Cheap As Chips And Battery Boom In Australia
Australia is expected to reach 20GW+ of solar PV in the next two decades and uptake of battery storage is forecast to triple this year compared to last. According to the Climate Council’s just-published ‘State of Solar 2016’ report, the collective capacity of solar panels installed in Australia by 2037 will be equivalent to approximately […]
US Grid Could Handle 35GW Of Offshore Wind Power
A new study has shown that the U.S. energy grid, with just minor upgrades to transmission lines and without any added storage capacity, could handle over 35 GW of offshore wind power capacity – enough to supply about 10 million homes with clean electricity. That figure could double to 70 GW as wind forecasting technology […]
Solar Power In New York Jumps 795%
State-supported solar power projects in New York increased nearly 800 percent from December 2011 to December 2016 says the state’s Governor, Andrew Cuomo. 64,926 installations were in place by the end of last year, compared with 9,079 through the end of 2011. Collectively, the state-supported PV projects total nearly 744 megawatts of solar power capacity, […]
The Energy Situation – What Australians Think
After a particularly tumultuous time on the Australian energy scene, an Essentials Report poll reveals the thoughts of voters on the various issues. Since September last year, there’s been (yet another) pitched battle between renewables and fossil fuels; with both sides hurling all they can at the fray. After all this debate and propaganda, and […]
Stabilising Molecules For Improved Flow Battery Potential
Barely a week after we reported on an improved redox flow battery out of Harvard University, a team of chemists from Utah and Michigan Universities have developed a charge-storing molecule that they say is 1,000 times more stable than the compounds currently used in flow battery systems. The breakthrough is important because of the way […]
Hydronium Ion Battery Technology Developed At OSU
The world’s first example of battery technology to use only hydronium ions as the charge carrier has been developed by scientists at Oregon State University (OSU) College of Science in the USA. Hydronium is the common name for the aqueous cation (positively charged ion) H3O+, produced by adding a proton to a water molecule. The […]
Africa’s Solar Energy Potential “Enormous” : IRENA Chief
Up to 60 million Africans may already be benefiting from off-grid renewable electricity – and the continent’s solar revolution is just getting started. In an interview with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, International Renewable Energy Agency head Adnan Amin said uptake of solar will be comparable to the uptake of mobile phones in Africa twenty years […]
