Posts By Michael Bloch On SolarQuotes

New Record Set For Corporate Clean Energy PPAs In 2018

Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements

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BloombergNEF (BNEF) reports corporations across the world entered into agreements covering 13.4GW of renewable energy capacity in 2018, more than double 2017’s figure of 6.1GW. [Read more…]

75-Year-Old Corn Vendor Gets Solar – Internet Goes Nuts

Selvamma - solar powered corn vendor

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Here’s another great example of the good that solar power can do in making struggling people’s lives a little bit easier. [Read more…]

JinkoSolar Announces Record Conversion Efficiency For Mono Solar Cell

JinkoSolar cell efficiency record

Solar manufacturer JinkoSolar says it has set a new efficiency record for a large-area N-type TOPCon monocrystalline silicon PV cell. [Read more…]

Solar PPA For Colocated Facebook Data Center

A Facebook data center landlord in the USA says it has signed a solar power purchase agreement on behalf of the social network giant. [Read more…]

SA Home Battery Scheme Grant Update

SA Home Battery Scheme

South Australian Minister for Energy and Mining Dan van Holst Pellekaan has revealed some numbers on uptake of the state’s home solar battery grants scheme. [Read more…]

More Solar Power For Google

Google - solar energy

Google’s renewable energy portfolio continues to grow, with more solar power purchase agreements recently announced in Taiwan and in the USA. [Read more…]

Townsville City Council Approval For Bluewater Solar Farm

Bluewater Solar Farm

Things are looking good for FRV’s Bluewater Solar Farm project near Townsville in Queensland, but there are still some hurdles it will need to clear. [Read more…]

It’s A Gas : Labor’s $1 Billion National Hydrogen Plan

National Hydrogen Plan

Federal Labor announced yesterday that under a Labor government,  $1.14 billion would be invested under a National Hydrogen Plan to make Australia a global leader in the growing hydrogen industry. [Read more…]

New South Wales Electric And Hybrid Vehicle Plan Unveiled

New South Wales Electric And Hybrid Vehicle Plan

The NSW Government says it will invest millions in fast charging points for electric vehicles, trial electric bus services and buy more electric and hybrid government vehicles. [Read more…]

Core Scores NT Lithium Mining Lease

Core Lithium - Northern Territory

South Australian headquartered Core Lithium says it is on its way to becoming the first lithium producer in the Northern Territory. [Read more…]

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