As part of a multimillion-dollar project to build Victoria’s largest underground recycled water treatment plant at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Compressed Air and Power Solutions (CAPS) Australia was selected to supply aeration blowers for the facility. [ + ]

GE Lighting will provide a complete energy-efficient lighting solution for the Cirebon Superblock Mall located in West Java, Indonesia. [ + ]

Perth’s Kingsway Sporting Complex is a hub of sporting and social activity. After three years of problems with its irrigation system, the City of Wanneroo took ownership of the pump station and established a working relationship with Grundfos. [ + ]

Port Augusta’s power station north of Adelaide was first commissioned in 1954. When Alinta recently decided to install a desalination plant for the power station operation, the tender was awarded to Aqueous Solutions. However, the tender required a very high recovery rate of 94%. [ + ]

When the National Parks and Wildlife Service needed to power some of its facilities across Northern NSW, Nickel Energy provided advice on the best solution. [ + ]

A report released in January 2013 by the Clean Energy Council has found that the market for energy storage technology in Australia will be equivalent to several coal-fired power stations by 2030, effectively transforming the way we think about electricity for our homes and businesses. [ + ]

The Australian cleantech sector is profiled to a greater extent than ever before in a report to be launched this week at events in Perth and Brisbane. [ + ]

GE Lighting has partnered with Hong Kong-based health and beauty retail giant Watsons to implement its LED signage system at 400 storefronts across China. [ + ]

ABB, together with the Canton of Zurich’s power company (EKZ), has successfully installed a 1 MW power battery solution at the Dietikon Powerplant. [ + ]

Adam Read, Global Practice Director for Waste Management, and Sarahjane Widdowson, a Principal Consultant with Ricardo-AEA, reflect on the fundamentals that local authority officers must address when planning, designing and rolling out food waste collection services and some of the key considerations for an Australian application. [ + ]

Merck Millipore is the developer and manufacturer of the benchtop Guava HT series flow cytometers for the research laboratory. Assays have been developed on the Guava instruments for research and production of oils from algae, the development of natural gas from coal and the production of fuels from bacteria. [ + ]

Todae Solar has announced the completion of a 94.75 kW grid-connect solar power system on the roof of Club Sapphire in Merimbula, NSW. [ + ]

Underperforming open industrial wastewater treatment lagoons are on the way out, according to an anaerobic technology advocate, as industry counts the cost of its pollution, odours, leakage, energy wastage and relative inefficiency in fixing the problems it set out to address. [ + ]

Water services provider Veolia has used Australian software in a European trial of water demand prediction, achieving an accuracy rate of 99.5%. [ + ]

A continuing drive by industry to reduce energy costs has enabled the Energy Efficiency Services (EES) division of Compressed Air and Power Solutions (CAPS) Australia to expand its range of services and increase the number of staff available to carry out the numerous compressed air energy audits it conducts each year. [ + ]