In some cases, adding a battery to your rooftop solar system will pay off. But to be sure of this, households need information about many factors – and there’s no single reliable place to find it.
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A heater with a 300-litre tank can store as much energy as a home battery at a fraction of the cost. Being able to store surplus solar energy at the right times helps grid stability and cuts emissions.
Are blackouts really looming by the middle of this decade? An AEMO report warns they might be – but there are plenty of projects on the drawing board that will help ease the squeeze on the grid.
The government is rolling out smart meters across the UK, but at present they are providing households with little benefit.
A technique called ‘energy arbitrage’ allows owners of local ‘microgrids’ to make a profit by designing the network to buy cheap power, store it and sell it back at a higher price.
The largest category of power plants applying to connect to the US grid are now solar, and over a third of those are hybrids that include battery storage.
From pulling carbon dioxide out of the air to turning water into fuel, innovators are developing new technologies and pairing existing ones to help slow global warming.
Tesla is now valued at more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Daimler, General Motors, BMW, Honda, Hyundai and Ford combined. But don’t expect that to last.
Households shouldn’t have to do all the heavy lifting in the renewables transition. A new solar farm shows organisations and businesses how it’s done.
The rules governing Australia’s electricity market are more than 20 years old and no longer serve consumers, or climate action. But big energy companies are using COVID-19 to delay reform.
Unregulated and hazardous lead acid battery manufacturing and recycling plants are often adjacent to residential areas, agricultural and grazing lands.
Australia’s renewables revolution proves that there’s cause for hope in our emissions reduction goals. But we cannot rest on our laurels.
M. Stanley Whittingham, John B. Goodenough and Akira Yoshino made the batteries in our pockets possible.
Australia urgently needs to prepare for a coming tsunami of solar panel and battery waste.
Phosphorene nanoribbons are like tagliatelle, but carry the potential to boost battery capacity by 50%.
A year ago, the world’s largest lithium-ion battery began dispatching power to South Australia’s grid. It has been a remarkable success but there are some concerns that have so far escaped scrutiny
Federal Labor has promised to give rebates of up to $2,000 to 100,000 households to install batteries to store power from solar panels. Is this good energy policy, or just middle-class welfare?
Is it too much to dream of batteries that are part of the structure of an item, helping to shape the form of a smartphone, car or building while also powering its functions?
Emptying and refilling a battery is a lot like pouring water from one glass to another, over and over again.
There are calls from the backbench and elsewhere for the federal government to safeguard the future of coal. But do those calls make economic sense? A look at Queensland’s energy landscape suggests not.
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Research Fellow, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Director, Andrew N. Liveris Academy for Innovation and Leadership & Professor and Chair in Sustainable Energy Futures, The University of Queensland
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Professor and Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
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Professor, College of Business, Zayed University
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
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Lecturer, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University
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E-Mobility Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor, Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University
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Research Associate, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Director of Energy Lancaster and Professor of Physical Chemistry, Lancaster University
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Affiliate, Electricity Markets & Policy Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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Chief economist, CSIRO energy, CSIRO
