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Queensland Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Ends Soon

Queensland appliance rebate

Queenslanders have less than two weeks to purchase an energy efficient appliance eligible for a State Government rebate. 40,000 Queensland households have so far received a rebate, with another 10,000 applications currently being processed.

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Yarranlea Solar Farm Construction Commences

Yarranlea Solar Farm

Construction activity started on the weekend at the site of what will be the 121- megawatt Yarranlea Solar Farm, west of Toowoomba in Queensland.

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Battery Trial Success In South Australia’s Cape Jervis

Cape Jervis battery trial

A new mobile energy storage project led by University of Adelaide researchers is now supporting the electricity network serving Cape Jervis.

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Solar Assisted Hybrid Electric Vessel To Soon Cruise Tasmania’s Gordon River

Spirit Of The Wild

A 33-metre long vessel with electric motors and solar panels was officially given its formal name this week – and it’s not Solar McSunnyface.

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Power Of Choice Meter Reforms Result In Powerful Conflicts Of Interest

On the first of December 2017 responsibility for electricity meters in the National Energy Market or NEM changed hands1.  The NEM is a National Electricity Market that apparently thinks Western Australia and the Northern Territory are other countries because they’re not included. The job of installing and maintaining electricity meters was taken from Distributed Network […]

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Wind And Solar Power Vs. Coal Seam Gas In Narrabri Shire

Wind energy and solar power vs CSG

Santos’s proposed Narrabri Gas Project seeks to construct hundreds of coal seam gas wells within the Narrabri Shire area – but what if there was a focus on wind and solar power in the shire instead?

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Solar Power For Humpty Doo Barramundi Farm

Barramundi Farm - Solar Energy

Humpty Doo Barramundi Farm, the first NAIF loan recipient in the Northern Territory, will soon embark on a major expansion including solar energy to help power its operations.

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Queensland Leading The Charge In Large-Scale Solar

Large scale solar energy projects in Queensland

Investment value in large-scale solar power projects in Queensland make up more than half of the national total says the Clean Energy Council.

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Crackdown On Dodgy Electricity Bill Discounts

Dodgy electricity bill discounts

Energy retailers will soon be prohibited from offering pseudo-discounts and a new investigation will determine whether Australian energy consumers are being gouged by networks in relation to corporate tax liabilities.

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Arvio Supercapacitor Energy Storage — Powerful Enough To Beat Batteries At Their Own Game?

  Note from Finn: People have asked me if I would recommend buying a ‘super capacitor’ over a conventional battery. My short answer is no. Personally I think the technology is too new to consider it in a residential application. As Ronald says at the end of the post: “…they are a new thing and […]

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