More Large-Scale Solar And Energy Storage Progress In Victoria

Gannawarra Energy Storage System - Tesla Powerpack

Gannawarra Solar Farm is operating at full capacity, construction of its colocated battery system has been completed and Wemen Solar Farm is connected to the grid says developer Wirsol. [Read more…]

Salt Water Solar Power For Singapore

Floating solar power - Singapore

Singapore’s Sunseap Group has announced it will be developing an “offshore” floating solar farm in Johore Strait. [Read more…]

Fair Dinkum Power Movement Gains Steam

Fair Dinkum Power

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison may regret ever uttering those three words. Fair Dinkum Power now has its own website and a renewable energy “pledge” that thousands of Australians have signed. [Read more…]

Alice Springs’ “Big Battery” Officially Launched

Alice Springs Battery Energy Storage System

Image: Territory Generation

The 5MW Alice Springs Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) was officially launched on Friday, which will enable greater solar power penetration and improve grid stability. [Read more…]

NSW’s Hawkesbury City Council Launches Solar Program

Hawkesbury Solar Program

Image: MrRick

The Hawkesbury Solar Program will extend Council’s solar capacity, with systems to be installed on 13 more of its buildings. [Read more…]

Victoria’s Karadoc Solar Farm Commences Electricity Exports

Karadoc Solar Farm

Renewables developer BayWa r.e. announced yesterday that Victoria’s largest solar farm to date has started exporting energy into the national grid – and soon it will be helping to power beer production. [Read more…]

Development Plan For SA’s Pallamana Solar Farm Published

Pallamana Solar Farm

The development plan for a huge solar + energy storage project just outside Murray Bridge in South Australia has been released for public viewing. [Read more…]

Solar Power For New Sydney Fish Markets

New Sydney Fish Markets

Image: UrbanGrowth NSW

The new Sydney Fish Market will include solar panels – but it won’t be a straightforward installation given the “fish-scale” roof design. [Read more…]

3D Printed Solar Powered Vehicle Bound For Antarctica

Solar Voyager

Image: Clean2Antarctica

Built in part using plastic waste and powered by the sun, the Solar Voyager will begin its journey to the South Pole towards the end of this month. [Read more…]

WA’s PowerBank Community Battery Storage Trial Gets An Early Start

PowerBank energy storage trial

Western Power/Synergy built it, and they have come. Interest in the PowerBank battery storage trial was such that it has started three months early; going live yesterday. [Read more…]

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