Coca-Cola goes better with solar, Greensync tunes up 'smart grid'

Coca-Cola Amatil has decided that things go better with rooftop solar at bottling plants all over Australia and software firm Greensync is set to launch the next stages of its deX Connect distributed energy platform – part of the smart grid solution to grid instability caused by rapid renewable energy uptake.

The developments are the latest examples of the transition to clean, decentralised energy continuing in the face of federal government policy upheavals and attempts to subsidise "firm" generation such as coal power stations and browbeat power companies to cut their prices.