Electric avenues that can transmit the sun’s energy onto power grids may be coming to a city near you.

Australian start-up Power Ledger has been named in a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report as a global leader in the development of “blockchain” technology – a technology, says BNEF, with the potential to “rapidly disrupt” the energy market status quo and fast-track the shift to decentralised generation.

Fresh from using the Marrakech climate talks to lobby for the development of Carmichael coal mine – an effort that won Australia a “fossil of the day” award – federal energy minister Josh Frydenberg is touting his and the Queensland government’s progress on “protecting and improving” the Great Barrier Reef.

A new community investment funding program for rooftop solar has met its $139,600 target in just two days, taking its total fund-raising to nearly $500,000 from four programs.