Aircraft fuel from cooking oil; surfboards made from wind turbine blades; and old coal mines become batteries. Someone dialled upcycling to eleven!
Bowen unveils $250m package for green fuels from canola, sugarcane, tallow and cooking oils (Renew Economy)
Abandoned coal mines are becoming the batteries of the future (Reasons to be Cheerful)
Pro surfer Josh Kerr makes world-first surfboard from recycled wind turbine blades (Renew Economy)
Installing green roofs in urban areas could reduce flood volume between 10 and 60 percent (Talking Climate)
Solar for apartments support scheme now open, with grants up to $150,000 (One step off the Grid)
Commercial rooftop solar is booming (One Step Off the Grid)
“World-leading” array of massive eight-hour solar batteries to reboot Australian manufacturing (Renew Economy)
AER approves 1,000 kerbside EV chargers for NSW and SA (ESD News)
First women-only rooftop solar project powers up in Victoria, sets higher bar for industry (Renew Economy)
“More megawatt-hours for the same dollars:” Battery prices coming down as demand soars (Renew Economy)
A summer of record renewables, record demand highs and record demand lows, and no blackouts (Renew Economy)