Canberra Branch

The Renew Canberra Branch runs monthly activities covering topics like sustainability in the built environment, household energy ratings and energy efficiency.

We appreciate the assistance of the Renewables Innovation Hub in hosting our October and November 2019 events.

Here is the video from our March 2020 webinar ‘Australia’s Energy Future’ with Professor Ken Baldwin, Director of the Australian National University Energy Change Institute.

The Canberra branch meets regularly on the last Wednesday of the month, 7:30pm at the Ian Ross building, Australian National University.

Note: We appreciate the assistance of the Renewables Innovation Hub in hosting our October and November 2019 events.

Convenor: Peter Lyons
Deputy Convenor: Stephen Wootten
Secretary & Treasurer: Peter Overton
Committee: Fraser Argue

Canberra Branch Events

Canberra Branch Event

8/12/21 – Enhanced Weather and Climate Data for Practitioners and Researchers

8 Dec 2021

The Asia Pacific Solar Research Conference will be held in Sydney mid December this year. Three papers to be presented there by Exemplary Energy will be presented to Renew in advance. T

Canberra Branch Event

4/11/21 – The story of the Dye Solar photovoltaic cell and its evolution into the perovskite cell

10 Nov 2021

The first 40 years of photovoltaic invention was based on classical semiconductors, doped crystalline silicon and thin film couples such as GaAs and CdTe until 1990 when Michael Graetzel led the creation of cells that generated power through artificial photosynthesis. Learn more at this webinar.

Canberra Branch Event

9/6/21 – Power to the People: Goulburn Community Energy Cooperative Dispatchable Solar Farm

9 Jun 2021

This session will tell the story of the establishment of the Goulburn Community Energy Cooperative and its offspring project - Clean Energy for Goulburn (CE4G). The project has just met its initial funding targets and will be moving into the construction phase in the near future.