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As part of its efforts toward carbon neutrality by 2025, the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland will have thousands of solar panels and a giant “water battery” installed at its main campus at Sippy Downs. [Read more…]
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Landlord Energy — Providing Solar For Commercial Tenants
If you are a business owner there’s an excellent chance you’re not happy with cost of grid electricity and would love to lower your bills with rooftop solar. Unfortunately, there’s also an excellent chance you rent your business premises and so don’t have much of an incentive to install solar. After all you can’t take it with you when you leave. [Read more…]
Lyon, JERA and Fluence Formalise Energy Storage Collaboration
Lyon Group, JERA and Fluence have banded together to pursue further utility-scale battery storage development and investment opportunities in the Asia Pacific, including Australia. [Read more…]
Australian Rooftop Solar Continues To Power Ahead
Rooftop solar PV installs this year are 56% above the same period last year says Green Energy Markets’ latest Renewable Energy Index. [Read more…]
The Solar PV Powered Weed Warrior
Perhaps we’ll see Ecorobotix’s solar powered autonomous robot weeder quietly trundling across Australian fields in the not too distant future. [Read more…]
“Power Of Choice” Pushes Costs Onto Electricity Consumers
Last week I wrote about the “Power of Choice” reforms that put electricity retailers in charge of electricity meters.
Today I’m writing how Power of Choice reforms harm the consumer by stealing the most valuable thing you possess: your time on this Earth. [Read more…]
Yarranlea Solar Farm Construction Commences
Construction activity started on the weekend at the site of what will be the 121- megawatt Yarranlea Solar Farm, west of Toowoomba in Queensland. [Read more…]
Power Of Choice Meter Reforms Result In Powerful Conflicts Of Interest
A new scheme called “The Power Of Choice” has moved responsibility for meters to the retailers.
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 Service Providers or DNSPs and given to Electricity Retailers. In other words, it was taken from the people who distribute electricity from long distance transmission lines to homes and businesses and given to the people who bill you for electricity. [Read more…]
Solar Power For Humpty Doo Barramundi Farm
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. [Read more…]
Mercury NZ Takes Big Stake In Tilt Renewables
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New Zealand energy company Mercury NZ Limited has announced it will take up to a 26.8% stake in NZX and ASX-listed Tilt Renewables. [Read more…]
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