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Samsung Unveils New Home Energy Storage Systems

Samsung Unveils New Home Energy Storage Systems

Since Tesla released the details of their lithium-ion Powerwall, the race has been on for other companies to release their home battery storage concepts.  Mercedes, Enphase and now(...)

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Tesla's New Powerwall Battery - Q&A's

Tesla's New Powerwall Battery - Q&A's

Update 28/08/2017: Tesla Powerwall 2 is now being produced, but availability in New Zealand is still limited.  The original Tesla Powerwall described below is no longer in production.   Click here for Tesla Powerwall 2 specs.

Rongomai School was one of 130(...)

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World's First Commercial-Scale Wave Energy System

World's First Commercial-Scale Wave Energy System

Submerged in the roiling seas off the coast of Perth in Western Australia is the world's first commercial-scale wave energy system. After ten years of research and construction The(...)

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Top Solar Powered EV Charging Stations

Top Solar Powered EV Charging Stations

Solar powered EV charging stations fascinate me.  It's the combination of two incredibly cool technologies in the one spot and the design opportunties of these carports are endless.  I wrote an article called The Coolest Solar Powered Car Charging Station Designs(...)

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The Solar Storage Game Changer

The Solar Storage Game Changer

The motivation to add batteries to a solar power system is now higher than ever. Governments around the world are lowering their feed-in tariffs and in New Zealand the energy retailers are lowering their solar power buy back rate to a rate so low its almost not worth(...)

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Solar Powered Flight

Solar Powered Flight

What better way to demonstrate the future of solar energy than flying a solar-powered plane across the world! The Solar Impluse project, with Swiss pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg, are doing just that. The project, which departed from Abu Dhabi in(...)

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 Al Gore Reveals What's Next For Climate in 2015.

Al Gore Reveals What's Next For Climate in 2015.

Al Gore, the master of extreme graphs is at it again. Love him or hate him, he's doing well to make the facts around climate change more digestable than most of the guys in the white lab(...)

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Energy Retailers Tactics To Get Rid Of Solar Power

Energy Retailers Tactics To Get Rid Of Solar Power

I was not surprised at all to hear Meridian Energy's chief executive Mark Binns announce last week that he thinks solar power is producing a social divide.  He said that people who can't(...)

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