Posts By Michael Bloch On SolarQuotes

PM Turnbull Receives Dear Malcolm Letter Re: Adani Coal Loan

Adani coal project loan veto

Image : Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has made good on an election promise to veto a $1 billion concessional loan to Adani for the Northern Galilee Basin Rail Project, part of its Carmichael mine project. [Read more…]

Victorian Government Announces NEJF Round And Microgrid Initiative

Renewable energy in Victoria

Image: Victorian Government

More funding is being made available to assist Victoria towards its goal of 40 percent renewable energy by 2025. [Read more…]

Byron Bay’s Solar Train On Track To Open Saturday

Byron Bay solar powered train

It’s full steam ahead (so to speak) for Byron Bay’s solar powered train, which will start offering train rides to the public from this weekend. [Read more…]

Northern Territory Smart Energy Grant Details Announced

Solar panel grant in the Northern Territory

Solar panel image: B137,CC BY-SA 4.0

Households  in the Northern Territory waiting on details of the NT’s recently announced new energy efficiency subsidy can now start getting solar quotes. [Read more…]

France’s EDF Shooting For 30GW Solar Rollout

EDF Group Solar Power Plan

Image: EDF Group

EDF Group announced the launch of its Solar Power Plan yesterday, an ambitious program with a goal to install 30 gigawatts of solar power capacity in France between 2020 – 2035. [Read more…]

Funding For Future Energy Center In Alice Springs

Intyalheme Centre for Future Energy announcement

Image: Dale Wakefield MLA

The Northern Territory Government has announced a $5 million investment over three years to fund the Intyalheme Centre for Future Energy (ICFE), which will be located at the Desert Knowledge Precinct in Alice Springs. [Read more…]

Flinders Island Hybrid Energy Hub Officially Opened

Flinders Island - Wind And Solar Power

Image: Google Maps

The residents of Flinders Island now have a cleaner electricity supply – the island’s $13.38 million Hybrid Energy Hub was officially opened yesterday. [Read more…]

Longi Solar Announces New World Record

Longi Solar

China’s Longi Solar has announced its bifacial PERC monocrystalline cell has achieved a world record bifaciality value of 82.15%.  [Read more…]

Lignite Of The Living Dead – EU Coal Power In Death Spiral

Coal fired electricity generation in the EU

Image: CarbonTracker

54% of Europe’s coal fired power plants are already running at a loss and within 13 years, just about all of them are likely to meet the same fate says a new report. [Read more…]

AGL’s Plans For Liddell Power Station Unveiled

Liddell Power Station

On Saturday, AGL announced it still intends closing the Liddell Power Station in New South Wales, revealing its plans to replace it with gas peaker plants, renewable energy, battery storage and demand response. [Read more…]

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