There’s elevated homes and then there’s this, a solar and battery powered elevating house.

One of the architects of the peer-to-peer energy trading platform behind the world-leading Brooklyn Microgrid in the US has set up an office in New South Wales, with plans to trial its “TransActive Grid” technology in Australia.

The University of Southern Queensland has become the latest of Australia’s tertiary institutions to embrace renewable energy, announcing plans to add nearly 2MW of rooftop solar and battery storage across its Toowoomba, Springfield and Ipswich campuses.

30,000 solar panels will be installed every hour around the world over the next 5 years according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).