Electrical & Power Generation Equipment Feature Articles

Concerns appear to be mounting that Australia is at risk by having all its economic eggs in the Asia basket amid a slowdown in China and the softening of key commodity prices.

The University of Nottingham in the UK is helping a small local business develop a unique technique for converting waste products from farms into energy.

Two of Australian's leading clean-up scientists have urged governments and policymakers to earmark a portion of the carbon tax to cleaning up the mess that may be left by the nation's ...

Murdoch University researchers have come up with a potential solution to one of sustainable energy's greatest challenges: power storage for use in non-generation times.

Perth has gained Australia's first electric car fast recharge network with 23 new fast-charge stations installed across the metro area, in a project led by researchers from The ...

University of Sydney researchers will be looking for ways to slash one of the world's biggest single sources of energy consumption — the heating and cooling of buildings — at a ...

The political football that is carbon pricing could be deflated thanks to a scientist who has discovered a way to turn carbon dioxide emissions into stockfeed.

While debate about Chinese investment in Australia is on the boil, we still don't know what will be cooked up.

For the first time, engineers at the University of New South Wales have demonstrated hydrogen can be released and reabsorbed from a promising storage material, overcoming a major ...

A revolutionary sound-powered stove and electrical generator is currently being tested in the conditions it was designed for — rural villages in Nepal and Bangladesh.

Simple production process for lowering the reflectance of solar panels lends itself to commercialisation.

Researchers who are studying a new magnetic effect that converts heat to electricity have discovered how to amplify it a thousand times over - a first step in making the technology ...

Developing rechargeable batteries capable of storing the huge amounts of energy generated by renewable sources, such as wind power, is consuming many hundreds of research hours at ...

Claims of a growing homelessness risk among apprentices will be the focus of a new study by Flinders University researchers.

Griffith University's Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre has been awarded $1 million in research funding by the state government to develop production processes for a silicon ...

Curtin University researchers will develop new technology for reducing carbon dioxide emissions after receiving $1 million of State Government funding.

For a country with so much sunlight, some might think Australia has been slow to adapt its electricity generation mix to include solar power.

Carbon pricing is essentially about ensuring the economy can grow without emissions growing at the same time.

On the face of it, the outlook is upbeat. An employment graph heading in the right direction. GDP profit up. The Australian dollar reaching for parity with its US counterpart - that ...

Political squabbling runs the risk of turning the world’s best carbon pricing scheme into the world's shortest-lived.