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Redflow takes cap in hand to charge up battery storage plan
Energy storage developer Redflow seeks to charge up its battery technology with a new fund raising and a major mea culpa. They got their business strategy wrong, and their share price is just a fraction of its post-IPO heights. It’s not easy being green, and even less so in Australia. -
Fossil fuel and nuclear giants prepare for green energy future
TRUenergy confirms it has canned its float for the moment, and the cash for clunkers coal buyback appears dead in the water. But beneath the results – and those for German giants RWE and E.ON – lies a fundamental change to the way utilities do business. -
Rooftop solar panels: our new peaking power generators
The debate on meeting peak demand usually overlooks the contribution of renewables. The CSIRO has shown that a collection of rooftop solar panels, combined with sophisticated forecasting techniques and a small amount of energy storage, can look to the grid just like a traditional fossil-fueled generator.
