Latest Electrification
Batteries and cells: Whether on wheels or the grid, it’s all about chemistry and cost
Lithium turned the battery industry from powering torches to running the country, and an ever increasing share of the world’s car industry. And it’s still rapidly evolving.Home battery boom and hours of free power are re-shaping how consumers use the grid
Consumers are changing the way they use the grid, with the Solar Sharer causing a demand spike in middle of the day, and home batteries flattening evening peaks.
“They are an unbelievable sight:” Fortescue’s first self-lifting wind towers emerge as electric trucks arrive
Fortescue gets ready to lift Australia’s tallest and most powerful turbines into place, as the first of a fleet of huge electric trucks arrives in the country.
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Batteries and cells: Whether on wheels or the grid, it’s all about chemistry and cost
Lithium turned the battery industry from powering torches to running the country, and an ever increasing share of the world’s car industry. And it’s still rapidly evolving.
Home battery boom and hours of free power are re-shaping how consumers use the grid
Consumers are changing the way they use the grid, with the Solar Sharer causing a demand spike in middle of the day, and home batteries flattening evening peaks.“They are an unbelievable sight:” Fortescue’s first self-lifting wind towers emerge as electric trucks arrive
Fortescue gets ready to lift Australia’s tallest and most powerful turbines into place, as the first of a fleet of huge electric trucks arrives in the country.
“Hot bricks” heat battery to electrify Rio Tinto aluminium refinery in world-first project
Plans to build one of the world’s biggest industrial heat battery projects win Arena funding, to determine whether “hot bricks” can slash aluminium refinery emissions.
SwitchedOn Podcast: The Australian invention bringing rooftop solar to apartments
Fresh from a double win at the Australian Good Design Awards, Allume’s SolShare is overcoming the barriers to bringing cheap, clean electricity to apartment dwellers.
The hidden transition: Businesses are quietly dumping gas for electric in big shift to industrial heat pumps
Slow grind of getting commercial, industrial businesses off gas is accelerating, a new report says.
Long lead times for syncons, gas turbines require better planning to smooth the energy transition, major supplier says
Gas turbines aren’t the only large equipment with long lead times.
Gas networks want Victoria to stall electrification. Households and industry should hope it doesn’t oblige
As more and more Victorian households quit gas, there remain real and unresolved questions about who bears the cost of abandoned pipelines. Slamming the brakes on electrification isn’t the solution.Most popular.
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