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  • Convergence key to sustainable business
    The future lies in converged solutions - enabling us to deliver complete building and energy management systems and, in turn, enable building owners to save a couple of hundred hours’ energy use each year.
  • Power-generation market diversifying and growing
    The commercial renewable power-generation market has received a huge injection of faith with the Australian Greens’ rise to power in the recent federal election. This emergence of ‘green’ policy muscle, combined with the growing pressure on a carbon price, offers the greatest opportunities yet to the commercial power-generation industry to succeed by going green.
  • Master Electricians call for national solar tariff regime
    Electrical industry association Master Electricians Australia is calling for state and federal governments to create a uniform solar feed-in tariff scheme around the country.
  • Photovoltaics integrated into buildings
    A recent report on photovoltaic technologies points to a new opportunity to accelerate the deployment of solar panels.
  • Can the world be powered mainly by solar and wind energy?
    A Nobel Prize winner has proposed that the world is potentially on the brink of a new era in human history where most energy will be sourced from solar and wind electricity generation.
  • Electric utilities must embrace clean energy and energy efficiency to compete, says report
    A recent US report states that important factors such as climate change, emerging renewable technologies, carbon costs and volatile fossil-fuel prices are the driving forces behind new business models in the electrical industry in the 21st century.
  • Government introduces legislation to enhance renewable energy target
    Reforms to enhance Australia’s ambitious 20% Renewable Energy Target have recently been introduced into Parliament.
  • Can Australia achieve 100% renewable energy by 2020?
    The Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Project is a detailed and costed blueprint for a transition to a zero-emissions economy in 10 years using proven, commercialised technology. Its purpose is to show the Australian public and decision-makers that reaching a zero-emissions economy is ready to be implemented and only awaits government sign-off. It aims to initiate urgent efforts to mitigate the risks posed by global warming and to describe the infrastructure and resources required to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions to zero in the medium term.
  • Solar energy is coming, ready or not
    Solar energy has the potential to become the leading source of ‘green’ energy in Australia, however, with so many means of delivering it and the various complexities associated with them, there is a danger that we may choose the wrong path and impede the effectiveness of solar energy in curbing greenhouse gas emissions. These choices not only need to be made by governments, but also private enterprises, the community and the electrical industry.
  • Researchers discover new way of producing electricity
    Researchers at MIT have discovered a new way of producing electricity using carbon nanotubes.
  • Distributed energy has power to save billions
    Wide-scale adoption of low-emission distributed energy could reduce the cost of transitioning to a low-carbon future by as much a $130 billion by 2050, according to a new report released by CSIRO.
  • Electricians and energy efficiency
    It is important for electricians to have an understanding of energy efficiency in their day-to-day work. Businesses and households are increasingly looking to implement energy efficiency measures to reduce their energy bills as well as their carbon footprint, and the emissions trading scheme would provide an added impetus for this.
  • Solar power all day and all night
    According to the not-for-profit organisation Beyond Zero Emissions, Australia is falling behind in its uptake of viable solar energy technologies.
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  • PowerSolar solar demo facility
    PowerSolar’s solar demonstration facility, in Melbourne, is equipped with a total of 28 individual PV panels of 190 W each, providing a total maximum power of 5.3 kW. The PV array can be arranged in single-string or dual-string topology so as to demonstrate single and dual maximum power point tracking (MPPT). The demonstration laboratory has two inverters, both Growatt 5 kW units, one with a single and one with dual MPPT thus permitting installers to familiarise themselves with the advantages of dual MPPT systems for A-frame roofs.
  • Soanar EcoTech range of monocrystalline solar panels
    The Soanar EcoTech range of monocrystalline solar panels is available in 12 power ranges that include 5, 10, 20, 40, 50, 65, 80, 120, 170 and 175 W.
  • Growatt, Kinglong and CEHE transformer and transformerless inverters
    Power Protection inverters include Growatt, Kinglong and CEHE inverters, both transformer and transformerless systems in power outputs to 1000 kW.
  • Solco-Motech PVMate 3800MS single-phase photovoltaic inverter
    The Solco-Motech PVMate 3800MS model is a transformer-less, single-phase photovoltaic inverter with two independent MPP trackers and a DC nominal power of 4000 W. The maximum overall efficiency is 96% for symmetrical loads and 95.8% for fully asymmetrical distribution.
  • Champion Compressors EcoPak compressors
    The EcoPak compressor range combines variable speed drive and variable output control technologies to deliver energy-efficient compressed air for applications where there are widely varying compressed air demands.
  • ABB PVS800 solar inverter
    The PVS800 solar inverter has been developed specifically for deployment in solar panel installations to convert the direct current that is produced by the sun in photovoltaic plates into alternating current that can be fed into the electrical grid.
  • Fuel cell
    The RiCell fuel cell system is a standalone power supply, suitable for applications in transport and environmental technology, power engineering, IT and telecommunications, such as use in tunnels as an emergency back-up generator in case of power supply failures.
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