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Solar Power Slashing City of Canterbury Bankstown’s Electricity Costs

Solar panels in Canterbury Bankstown

Solar panels to play a key role in the City of Canterbury Bankstown’s energy future

The City of Canterbury Bankstown has announced it will install solar power systems on more buildings to make further substantial savings on its electricity bills and increase local efforts on addressing climate change.

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Unapproved Solar Panels In Clean Energy Regulator’s Crosshairs

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CER crackdown on non-compliant solar panels

The Clean Energy Regulator has announced it is targeting installations of unapproved solar panels for which STC’s have been claimed – and has already taken its first scalp.

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Progress on Tasmania’s “Battery of the Nation” Aspirations

Tasmania - Battery of the nation

Tasmania has its sights set on becoming Australia’s renewable energy battery

From little things, big things grow – Hydro Tasmania has reported on progress of engineering work underway that will contribute towards a goal of making the Apple Isle the “Battery of the Nation”.

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Power-To-Gas Trial For Adelaide

Hydrogen energy storage trail

Australia’s gas network potentially a “bottomless battery” for storing renewables-based hydrogen.

A power-to-gas trial using a new electrolyser will seek to produce cheap hydrogen from splitting water, with the hydrogen then injected into the gas grid.

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Australia’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions Creep Up – Again

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Australia’s GHG emissions continue to rise

The latest Australian National Greenhouse Gas Inventory quarterly update reveals a reduction in electricity sector emissions, but an increase at a national level.

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Registration Period Opens For Queensland’s Renewables 400

Renewables 400

Solar farm image: junilly, CC BY 3.0

The Palaszczuk Government says its Renewables 400 initiative will support companies wanting to build large scale renewables and energy storage projects in the state through a reverse auction process.

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Victorian Hydrogen Refuelling Station Will Use Wind And Solar Power

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Waste collection trucks to be powered by rain, wind and sun | Image: Orderinchaos, CC BY-SA 3.0

Victoria’s Moreland City Council has received government funding for an ambitious project to transition its diesel-fuelled waste trucks to hydrogen extracted using wind and solar power.

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1,000 MW Queensland Solar Energy Project Approved

Equis Energy - Wandoan South Solar Project

Equis Energy’s Wandoan South Solar Project Approved

The massive Wandoan South Solar Project, which could become the largest operating solar farm in Australia,  has been granted approval to proceed by Western Downs Regional Council.

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Tesla Completes First Solar Roofs, Hints Of SA Battery Project Progress

Tesla solar roof installation

Tesla Solar Roof in the wild | Image: Tesla

Tesla has begun installing its Solar Roof product and the company seems to be making rapid progress on its South Australian battery project.

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Boggabilla Solar Farm Wins Praise

Boggabilla Solar Farm

Solar powers on in Boggabilla | Image source: Adam Marshall

Boggabilla, a small town in the far north of inland New South Wales, has been put on the map with a recently completed privately funded solar farm.

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