What’s said to be South Australia’s first zero-emissions electric-powered kerbside garbage and recycling collection truck went into service in Adelaide last week. [Read more…]
Search Results for: south australia
Sun Helping To Power Precision Group’s Port Adelaide Plaza
Commercial property investment and management company Precision Group has officially unveiled its completed $1.3 million PV project in Adelaide. [Read more…]
Has Chief Scientist Alan Finkel Got It Wrong On Hydrogen And Natural Gas?
On Wednesday last week Australia’s Chief Scientist, Alan Finkel, gave a talk on Australia’s energy future at the National Press Club. While there’s no doubt Australia’s Chief Scientist is a smart cookie, I think a couple of predictions he made are fairly obviously wrong. [Read more…]
OZ Minerals Eyes Renewables For Billion Dollar Mining Project
![Oz Mineral - West Musgrave](https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/oz-minerals-musgrave.png)
Image: Oz Minerals
OZ Minerals says renewable energy could help power its proposed West Musgrave copper and nickel project in Western Australia. [Read more…]
Heywood Interconnector Failure Hammers SA Battery Owners On Tesla VPP
![Tesla VPP battery cycling](https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/tesla-vpp.jpg)
Screen captures from a Tesla VPP customer’s monitoring app. Look at that battery go! Green is battery, grey is grid. Above the line is using battery/grid. Below the line is charging battery/exporting to the grid.
Tesla Powerwall owners taking part in South Australia’s Virtual Power Plant (VPP) project have a continuing exciting ride for a few more days yet. [Read more…]
Wagga Wagga Council Solar Power Rollout
Solar panels will soon be installed on several key Wagga Wagga City Council buildings, and with more to come. [Read more…]
Victorians Can Get $50 From The Victorian Energy Compare Website Because We Are A Nation Of Idiots
![Victorian Energy Compare website $50 bribe](https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/50-dollars.jpg)
Victorians can get $50 from the Victorian Energy Compare website until the 30th of June 2020 because they’d rather waste money on bribes than allow real competition.
If you live in Victoria and have an electricity or gas account in your name, you can get $50 from the Victorian Government. Why are they handing out $50 to every household that asks for it? [Read more…]
SACOSS Wary Of Home Battery Scheme For Rentals
The South Australian Council of Social Service is unsure if increasing access to SA’s Home Battery Scheme for landlords and tenants would provide any real benefits to those parties. [Read more…]
Oh No, Not You Again – Barnaby Eyes Nationals Leadership
![Barnaby Joyce - coal](https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/barnaby-joyce-coal.jpg)
Barnaby Joyce – (they say the eyes are the mirror of the soul)
The Nationals are at it again and there’s a chance by the end of today Barnaby Joyce may be the party’s leader (again) – and Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister. [Read more…]
EIS For Culcairn Solar Farm Released
![Culcairn Solar Farm](https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/culcairn-solar-farm.jpg)
Image: Google Earth
The exhibition period for Neoen’s proposed Culcairn Solar Farm project in New South Wales kicked off last week. [Read more…]
Currently Raging Debates: