Scott Graybeal, CEO of Caelux, which has developed a perovskites-based nanotechnology that can improves the performance of silicon solar panels that it claims produce 30% more power from the sun at a 10% lower cost than traditional panels. Caelux recently closed an additional $12 million in funding to build a manufacturing facility that will produce up to 100 MW of […]
Australia Photo credit: Clean Energy Regulator. By Anders Lorenzen The penetration of renewable energy in Australia‘s main electricity grid has never been higher. The share of renewables in Australia’s main electricity grid has reached a new high, with rooftop and grid-scale solar, wind and hydro combining to deliver more than 70% of the total underlying demand on Wednesday this week. […]
Renewable energy will reconfigure the nation’s electricity infrastructure, a relic from an era of centralized power generation when coal, gas, hydroelectric, and nuclear generation created massive amounts of power in one location for distribution across thousands of square miles. These times call for a different approach to electricity distribution, which mixes national and regional grids with local generation and a […]