Our story so far
The first tender shoots of the idea for this company started when I was living in a sustainable community. The community needed energy storage and I started looking at how that might be done. First I envisaged a micro pumped hydro station. However, the more I explored these ideas the bigger things became and the possibilities of what could be achieved increased. It soon became clear that I needed a company with like-minded individuals to carry this forward, and so Sunshine Hydro was born.
Energy Transition learning from the Yellowstone Wolves
Can we learn from the Yellowstone Wolves about the value of a keystone species on its ecosystem.
Reconciliation in Action
In an era where public sentiment leans heavily toward acknowledging First Nations peoples and righting historical wrongs, the question that often emerges is: “What can businesses do to make a tangible difference?” While public support for indigenous communities is high on both sides of the referendum debate, concrete steps and real actions are what matter.
The Case for Ultra-Deep e-Methanol Storage
While we can’t predict what will cause the next energy crisis, we can be quite confident that one will arise, probably rather sooner than later. Most people will not expect it to happen until it does and will call it “unprecedented” – the new favourite word as record weather events and natural disasters occur weekly in global news.
Community is why we are in business
Technology and economics as ‘how’ we will bring our vision to life. Community and environment are ‘why’ we will bring it to life. Or, more broadly, ‘why’ we are in business. Like in all organisations, ‘why’ is where the passion lies.
The carbon-free base load that isn’t nuclear
The world is facing a perfect storm with scarcity driving up fossil fuel prices just as we need to urgently address our carbon emission targets. So it’s not surprising a debate has developed in Australia about the pros and cons of nuclear power.
AESOP disrupts pumped hydro industry – Improves project profits by over 100%
AESOP (Advanced Energy Storage Optimising Program) is software that enables engineers to accurately model and optimise hybrid renewable energy storage projects.
Sunshine Hydro hits the Energy Trifecta: Reliable, Cheap and Green
In this article, we model the expected performance of a Superhybrid against the combined output of a coal-powered turbine at Liddell Power Station and the gas-powered Colongra Power Station during the the May 2021 outage at Calide.
How Sunshine Hydro can put Downward Pressure on Electricity Prices
Electricity spot prices are more than double where they were 12 months ago according to AEMO’s quarterly energy dynamics report.
How to be Carbon Neutral in Real Time
Google is taking action to properly account for the carbon used by its data centres around the world. This is how Google describes their goal.
