renewable energy

Semitransparent solar cells: a window to the future?

15 Feb 2018

Solar windows can harness the sun's energy while maintaining enough transparency to function as a window, write Matthew Wright and Mushfika Baishakhi Upama.

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UNSW signs world-first solar energy agreement

15 Jan 2018

In the first deal of its kind in the world university sector, UNSW has reached an agreement with Maoneng Australia and Origin Energy to have 100% of its energy supplied by photovoltaic solar energy.

Pioneering solar engineer Stuart Wenham dies, aged 60

24 Dec 2017

UNSW is mourning the passing of Professor Stuart Wenham, director of the Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, and a pioneering researcher and inventor of solar cell technologies.

UNSW launches ambitious climate change blueprints on energy, health and justice

20 Nov 2017

UNSW's Grand Challenge on Climate Change this week launches three ambitious climate change blueprints on energy, health and justice.

UNSW Engineering student named Geographic Society's 2017 young adventurer

02 Nov 2017

UNSW Engineering student Sam Mitchell is the Australian Geographic Society's 2017 Young Adventurer of the Year after his epic journey along the Canning Stock Route on a solar-powered bike.

Power up

08 Sep 2017

In an energy-hungry world, battery storage is the way of the future. But not all technologies are equal, writes Wilson da Silva.

Screen-printed batteries for renewables on the way

28 Jun 2017

Ultra-thin, flexible screen-printed batteries for cheap portable devices and intermittent renewable energy are closer to reality, thanks to a joint UNSW-University of Queensland project.

Transition to a clean energy future

08 Nov 2016

Industry leaders including Geoffrey Cousins, President of the Australian Conservation Foundation, and UNSW President and Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Jacobs explain why they have come together in an alliance to move Australia towards a clean energy future.

UNSW welcomes compromise to ARENA funding

15 Sep 2016

UNSW has welcomed the decision to spare ARENA from dramatic funding cuts, allowing the agency to continue to support critical Australian research into new renewable energy and storage technologies.

Power to the people: how communities can help meet our renewable energy goals

24 Jun 2016

The federal election campaign has highlighted the major parties' very different visions of Australia’s renewable energy future, write Iain MacGill and Franziska Mey.

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