Articles written by Natalie Filatoff

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Automate, foldout for a solar future While the efficiency of solar cells will always be important, scaling innovation in sustainable cell technology and solar deployment, is the new game in town. With hydrogen exports and production of green metals in its sights, Australia has some breakthrough tech coming down the pike, as pv magazine Australia’s Natalie Filatoff reports.
Natalie Filatoff
Dec 08, 2022
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Software to serve up more solar Enabling future energy flows at the lower-voltage distribution level? Unlikely. Wide-scale hardware upgrades would cost billions if not trillions, especially in Australia’s far reaches. Software and digital solutions are identifying new cost-effective ways of letting more sun into the grid.
Natalie Filatoff
Oct 04, 2022
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Flowing into the lithium supply gap Australian-born vanadium redox flow technology and new homegrown electrolyte sources are set to bulk up renewable energy storage options in the Pacific region and plug the gap left by lithium supply-chain issues. Natalie Filatoff reports from Sydney.
Natalie Filatoff
Aug 09, 2022
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New tools for fossil fuels Long thought of as adversaries to renewable energy, fossil fuel assets and infrastructure also present opportunities for solar, its green-hydrogen output, and smart energy storage. Natalie Filatoff reports from Sydney on the opportunities and approaches the miners are taking.
Natalie Filatoff
Jan 12, 2022
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Research & Development
The weekend read: Cloud looms over PV’s silver lining Should heterojunction solar technologies be temporarily shelved? Could copper plating replace screen-printed silver conductive surfaces in cells? Why are tandem cells a likely successor to PERC? Brett Hallam recently sat down with Natalie Filatoff in Sydney to explain the findings of a new study by UNSW that sought to answer these controversial questions.
Natalie Filatoff
Nov 27, 2021
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Applications & Installations
Distribution networks to shrink as safety, reliability of standalone solar improves Western Australia leads the world in successfully implementing renewables-based generation for far-flung customers. Boundary Power has been widely recognized for its innovations and is ready to repeat its successes with standalone power systems across Australia and the Asia-Pacific.
Natalie Filatoff
Nov 15, 2021
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Applications & Installations
Control platform takes commercial PV off grid so it can sell services, energy back to network EleXsys Energy’s technology allows the controlled flow of excess energy from distributed rooftop-solar generators to help stabilize global grids as they increasingly transition to renewables. The world could feel the positives of mass transition to solar within five years.
Natalie Filatoff
Nov 08, 2021
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Markets & Policy
Future climate scenarios to adversely affect Australia’s PV capacity Australia is blessed with an incredible solar resource, but it will be diminished by global warming.
Natalie Filatoff
Nov 04, 2021
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Cloud looms over PV’s silver lining Should heterojunction solar technologies be temporarily shelved? Could copper plating replace screen-printed silver conductive surfaces in cells? Why are tandem cells a likely successor to PERC? Brett Hallam recently sat down with Natalie Filatoff in Sydney to explain the findings of a new study by UNSW that sought to answer these controversial questions.
Natalie Filatoff
Nov 02, 2021