Telstra Seeking Power Price Protection – Panel background : Lujkin8, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
It’s been reported Australian telecommunications company Telstra will purchase all the electricity generated by a 70MW solar farm to be built near Emerald in Queensland.
Good news for Queenslanders who want to install a battery or a bigger solar inverter.
There is good news for Queenslanders looking to install rooftop solar and anyone thinking of of installing AC coupled battery systems such as the Powerwall 2. [Read more…]
LG’s NEoN-R panel is very good, very well warranted and very expensive.
LG Solar has introduced a new high efficiency solar panel they call the LG NeON R. [Read more…]
Infinity Warranty? As Chuck D once said. Don’t believe the (Tesla) hype.
In October last year, Tesla announced they were making tiles with built-in solar cells that would allow a roof to generate electricity without the need for solar panels. Installations of these solar roofs will start in the United States in June and you can go to Tesla’s Australian site and slap down a $1,310 deposit to reserve one. Tesla says they will be available here in 2018 and, given their record of meeting their own self-imposed deadlines, they should definitely arrive before the heat death of the universe. Just so long as they don’t get cancelled like the DC Powerwall 2. [Read more…]
Sunshine Coast Solar Farm | Image: Trina Solar
The 15 megawatt Sunshine Coast Solar Farm in Valdora, Queensland, powered by Trina Solar panels, is on track to be fully operational within the next couple of months.
Sustainable Community Grants – Avon River Basin
Grants that can be used towards community solar energy projects are up for grabs in the Avon River Basin region of Western Australia.
Where the bucks are going in 2017/18 for energy – Image: cogdogblog, CC0 (Public Domain)
More than $155 million has been earmarked over the 2017/18 period to go towards securing Victoria’s energy supplies.
Going green and saving bucks – Bathurst Regional Council
This month will see the installation of solar panels on Bathurst Regional Art Gallery and City Library, the latest in a series of Council solar projects.
Coal giving the final finger to solar power in India? Image: Ville Miettinen, CC BY 2.0
India has taken great strides in boosting its use of renewables, but its efforts in relation to solar energy are being impacted in some parts of the country by heavy air pollution.
I think fossil fuels are great. [Read more…]
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