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…]

Australian Solar Systems Interest Index – November 2018

auSSII solar report covering October 2018

Solar installations broke records again in Australia last month, and interest remained strong throughout October from potential solar buyers. Here’s what they were looking for. [Read more…]

Go-Ahead Given For Vales Point Solar Farm

Vales Point solar project

Vales Point Power Station | Image: Public Domain

The New South Wales Department of Planning & Environment has approved an application for a large-scale solar farm at the site of the coal-fired clunker, Vales Point Power Station. [Read more…]

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