At 94, the co-inventor of the lithium-ion battery is still at the forefront of the energy storage revolution; leading a team that has developed a new battery technology promising better performance.

Installing solar panels is about to become even more attractive in the Australian state of Victoria – and existing solar owners also have cause for celebration.

It didn’t take long after the failure of South Australia’s two biggest gas plants late on Friday afternoon for the abuse to start flowing.

As Australia’s big solar market gears up for a potentially “huge” 2017, 2016 has been chalked up as another record year for utility-scale solar, globally, with cumulative capacity falling just short of 100GW, and a new annual record for new installations set at almost 35GW.