Solar experts say Australian renewable energy investment being stifled by Government policy

One of the world’s most advanced solar power companies has shelved plans to develop electricity plants for the public market in Australia because of the Government’s apparent hostility to renewable energy.

Solar Reserve, based in Santa Monica, California, has pioneered a technology that combines mass-scale solar power generation with storage, allowing energy from the sun to […]

Solar experts say Australian renewable energy investment being stifled by Government policy 2015-10-23T11:27:02+08:00

Technology, not regulation, will kill coal fired power

British banking giant Barclays downgraded the entire electricity-generating sector of the US high-grade corporate bond market because of the challenges posed by renewables and the fact that the market isn’t pricing in those challenges.

The thesis from the Barclays credit team is that it’s not so much regulations that will choke off coal burning, but technological […]

Technology, not regulation, will kill coal fired power 2015-10-23T11:27:16+08:00

Breaking the Barriers for Low-Cost Energy Storage

A team of researchers has developed a cheap, rechargeable and eco-friendly battery that could be used to store energy at solar power plants for a rainy day.Led by Sri Narayan, professor of chemistry at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, the team developed an air-breathing battery that uses the chemical energy generated […]

Breaking the Barriers for Low-Cost Energy Storage 2015-10-23T11:30:13+08:00