Posts By Michael Bloch On SolarQuotes

Redflow ZBM2 Battery Deliveries About To Get Under Way

Redflow ZBM2 battery deliveries

Australian energy storage company Redflow announced yesterday it had completed testing of the first ZBM2 batteries using battery stacks produced by its new Thailand factory, and is now ready to start fulfilling back orders. [Read more…]

SunPower Panels Power 4.4MW Campbell Soup Solar Project

Campbell's Soup - Solar Energy

Campbell Soup Company announced yesterday a 4.4-megawatt solar power project at the company’s World Headquarters in Camden, New Jersey is officially online. [Read more…]

Abbott (Again) Calls For An End To Solar Subsidies

Tony Abbott - solar subsidies

Tony Abbott | Image: via Facebook

Surprise, surprise – Tony Abbott has joined the call for an end to solar subsidies – in fact, all new renewables – after backbench colleague Craig Kelly’s recent ill-informed dummy spit. [Read more…]

Jacinda Ardern Urged To End Oil And Gas Exploration In New Zealand … Now

Jacinda Ardern - coal, oil and gas

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern | Via Facebook

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden’s green energy street cred is being put to the test after an open letter was published urging her government to end oil and gas exploration in the country. [Read more…]

Craig Kelly (Again) Applies Pressure To Slash Australia’s Solar Subsidy

Craig Kelly - Solar Subsidies

Craig Kelly | Image: NSW Liberals

Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg is being pressured by NSW Liberal MP Craig Kelly to act on reducing Australia’s solar subsidy, which could be relatively easily done by tinkering with an important mechanism. [Read more…]

Knitting Nannas Needling Cowper MP Over Coal And Renewables

Knitting Nannas Against Gas - KNAG

KNAG via Facebook

Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG) is quite possibly the most likeable pro-renewables and anti-fossil fuels activist group  in Australia. [Read more…]

Community Energy Storage Trial For Western Australia

Community energy storage

Image: Ricinator

WA’s Western Power will soon give owners of solar panels in the suburb of Meadow Springs a way to “bank” their solar electricity. [Read more…]

Australia’s University Of New England’s Solar + Storage Project Approved

University of New England solar + battery project

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The University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales has received the green light for construction of a solar farm that will also incorporate battery storage. [Read more…]

AEMC Wants Your Solar Power And Battery System Information

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) wants to establish a national register of small-scale distributed energy resources –  including battery storage and rooftop solar power systems. [Read more…]

Castlemaine’s Historic Market Building Going Solar

Market Building - Solar Energy

Image: Mount Alexander Shire Council

Old meets new – the Market Building in Castlemaine will have solar panels installed this month, with the blessing of Heritage Victoria.

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