Victoria’s CitiPower and the Yarra Energy Foundation have partnered up for a potential community battery storage project in Melbourne’s inner suburbs. [Read more…]
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Parents Pushing For Solar And Batteries Across All Australian Schools
Australian Parents for Climate Action (AP4CA) wants to see Federal funding for solar panels and batteries for every school and early childhood centre in Australia. [Read more…]
Australian Small-Scale Solar In 2020: Statistics
Updated data released last week by the Clean Energy Regulator shows it was another corker of a year for small-scale solar power in Australia. [Read more…]
Australian Trial Protecting Pears With Solar Panels
Researchers at Tatura SmartFarm in Victoria are tinkering with using solar panels to protect fruit trees from extreme heat events – one of the many potential applications for agrivoltaics. [Read more…]
Improperly Disposed Pizza Boxes Thwart Solar Bins
![Solar powered BigBelly bins in Lorne](https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/solar-bins-lorne.jpg)
Image: The One and Only Lorne Community Notice Board (Facebook)
BigBelly compacting bins have proven to be a useful tool for councils, reducing the number of waste collection trips needing to be made. But not even solar power can cure stupid. [Read more…]
Solar Panels Are A Great Deal, But They Aren’t “Almost Free”
Over-promising and under-delivering isn’t a great way to win friends and influence people. For even crap solar to be “almost free”, it would need to be particularly crappy to the point of not being installed. [Read more…]
EnergyAustralia Reduces Solar Feed-in Tariff Rates
When the calendar flipped over to January 1, feed in tariff rates for many EnergyAustralia customers were reduced. [Read more…]
Financing Secured For NSW’s Metz Solar Farm
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has closed financing for the Metz Solar Farm project in New South Wales. [Read more…]
A Big Year For SMA’s Big Inverters In Australia
2020 saw Germany’s SMA sign contracts for around 1.6 gigawatts of central inverter capacity for use in large-scale solar installations across Australia. [Read more…]
New Delta Solar Products For Australia In 2021
Delta Electronics has new solar products for Australia next year – another battery system and solar inverters with a very interesting feature. [Read more…]
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