Former chief scientist Alan Finkel will join VC Iain Martin to flick the switch on Deakin U’s microgrid this morning, “the largest solar farm ever built on an Australian university campus.”

No, it’s not going to produce liquid hydrogen Dr Finkel’s fave now he is the government’s advisor on low emissions energy technology. But it’s still taking Deakin U off the grid for 7 megawatts worth of power, with 2 megs battery storage.