David Carroll is a Senior Journalist at pv magazine Australia. With over 25 years of experience in the Australian media industry, he covers a broad range of topics including energy policy, renewable energy, and the intersection of media and entertainment. David's work has been featured in numerous publications, including the Jackson County Sentinel, Georgian Times, and Tech Policy Press, among others.
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David Carroll's coverage spans local Australian energy and environmental topics, with a focus on solar power and battery storage. To effectively reach out to him, consider offering insights or news related to developments in the Australian energy sector, particularly regarding solar power initiatives and state policies impacting the industry.
Additionally, given his interest in sports and culture & society topics, pitches related to these areas within an Australian context could also be well received. When reaching out to David Carroll, it might be beneficial to highlight connections between these diverse themes such as community engagement through sporting events that promote sustainable practices or cultural aspects of renewable energy adoption.
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By: David Carroll
Australia’s remote mining operations are emerging as the proving ground for high-renewable energy systems with operational data showing several off-grid industrial sites are now consistently operating at renewable energy penetration rates above 80%.
By: David Carroll
Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corp. (CEFC) has launched a program to support up to 16 battery storage and solar-plus-storage projects, including standalone batteries and battery retrofits, with a focus on distribution-connected assets up to 5 MW.
By: David Carroll
Australia's remote mining operations are emerging as the proving ground for high-renewable energy systems with operational data showing several off-grid industrial sites are now consistently operating at renewable energy penetration rates above 80%.
Let's explore the origin of some common sayings. After writing several columns about sayings like, “Sight for Sore Eyes” and “Don't Fly Off the Handle,” many of you suggested some others.
Let’s explore the origin of some common sayings. After writing several columns about sayings like, “Sight for Sore Eyes” and “Don’t Fly Off the Handle,” many of you suggested some others. Did your parents ever say, “Well, That Takes the Cake!” Remember the cake walks of your childhood? In the 19th century, community dance contests awarded an actual cake to the winners, cementing “take the cake” as the result of achieving first place honors. Of course, if you were a superb dancer, winning the competition was a piece of cake, right? And winning the cakewalk while leisurely strolling proved how easy it was. That’s why a political candidate who gets 80 percent of the vote is said to have won “in a cakewalk.”
By: David Carroll
The Australian arm of United Kingdom-based renewables outfit Octopus Group has turned to Habitat Energy to provide trading and optimisation services for two of the country’s first DC-coupled solar and battery energy storage projects.
By: David Carroll
The Australian government has announced it will expand the successful federal rooftop solar rebate scheme, increasing the installation cap to include systems up to 1 MW in size – up from 100 kW.
By: David Carroll
Rooftop solar installations in Australia increased marginally in July with new data from industry analyst SunWiz revealing that 339 MW of small-scale PV was installed on household and business roofs across the country last month.
The Australian government is increasing the installation cap permitted under its rooftops solar rebate scheme from 100 kW to 1 MW.
By: Magdalena, Magdalena Parta, Chris Young, Parta, Conor Blount, David Carroll, Chris, Darren King, Murphy, Brendan, Woodruff, Iain Murphy, Curtis Woodruff, Andrew, Blount, Andrew Woodruff, King, Schulz, Brendan Schulz, Carroll, Conor, Iain, Curtis, Darren, David, Young
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) funded CU Aerospace (CUA) to develop and fabricate the Dual Propulsion Experiment (DUPLEX) 6U CubeSat to perform an on-orbit mission demonstration of two new polymer fiber electric propulsion technologies developed by CUA using NASA Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) funding. Both new propulsion technologies have multiple advantages: they utilize no fluid propellant, no pressure vessel, no valves to clog or leak, and no toxic materials. The 1.7U fiber-fed pulsed plasma thruster (FPPT) uses spooled Teflon filament as its propellant, has extremely high total impulse ( > 29,000 N-s) with high specific impulse ( > 3,500 s), and is suitable for 6U or larger satellites. The monofilament vaporization propulsion (MVP) thruster is a compact resistojet technology that uses spooled Delrin propellant. The 0.9U MVP has a total impulse of 265 N-s and specific impulse of 63 s, suitable for 3U or larger CubeSats. Both thrusters provide a low-cost option for orbit change, orbit maintenance, collision avoidance, and deorbiting. NearSpace Launch (NSL) fabricated the bus with flight processor, electrical power system, satellite health monitoring, and radios. This paper presents initial flight test data of the DUPLEX satellite and its two new thruster systems including trials and tribulations of the early mission operations. DUPLEX mission simulations were updated to map out an accurate mission profile based upon the actual deployment date (2 Dec. 2025) and unexpected findings during the commissioning process. Both thrusters have now attained operational flight heritage, are considered Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 8, and thruster operations are ongoing to continue acquiring on-orbit data.
