By storing surplus energy, batteries allow households to reduce power bought from the electricity grid. Unfortunately, batteries have so far been prohibitively expensive.

The GPT Group's (GPT) approach to outcome-based reporting for waste and resource management. [ + ]

Water utilities have a well-deserved reputation for being quiet achievers. They are constantly being challenged to adapt to climate variability and meet sustainability targets.

Property group Stockland has selected Todae Solar and Canadian Solar to install a 1.22 MW rooftop solar system on Stockland Shellharbour Shopping Centre in the Illawarra region of NSW. Once completed, the system will be Australia's largest single-building rooftop solar system. [ + ]

An applicator of Rhino Linings Australasia recently won the tender to repair the inside and outside of the 80 metre-diameter, above-ground, steel potable water storage tank located at the Hospital Hill Reservoir in Murwillumbah, NSW. [ + ]

The key operating requirement for any sewage handling pump is its ability to pass solids without clogging, ie, either a full or a partial clog of the impeller and/or volute. [ + ]

Kevin Young, Managing Director of Sydney Water, provides his insights on the utility's sustainability achievements. [ + ]

This article compares positive displacement screw blowers and turbo blowers. Both claim 35% more efficiency vs PD blowers, but which one to choose? [ + ]

This article compares positive displacement screw blowers and turbo blowers. Both claim 35% more efficiency vs PD blowers, but which one to choose? [ + ]

Kevin Young, Managing Director of Sydney Water, provides his insights on the utility's sustainability achievements.

The inaugural AWA Water Innovation Forum, held last week at Royal Randwick, gave technology companies the chance to put forward solutions they believe will revolutionise the water industry. [ + ]

Researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) have revealed that several additives that claim to break down polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate simply don't work in common disposal situations such as landfills or composting. [ + ]

Wastewater treatment processes have been driven to reduce nutrient concentrations over the past couple of decades to improve receiving water quality particularly in inland waterways. This has led to the installation of complex and often energy-intensive processes. Recently, focus has been on optimising existing treatment processes both in terms of energy usage and plant performance to maximise performance, capacity and operation of the plants. [ + ]

Australia's historic Avondale College of Higher Education has committed itself to a program of water and energy conservation designed to deliver strong sustainability benefits. [ + ]

There is absolutely no doubt that solar will be one of the mainstream technologies of the future, both worldwide and in Australia. Together with wind, it is already making up the vast majority of new energy generation installed around the world. [ + ]