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Blacktown City Council Commits To 100% Renewables (Electricity)

Blacktown - Renewable Energy

On Wednesday night, Sydney’s Blacktown City Council voted in favour of a target of 100% renewable electricity for its operations by 2025. [Read more…]

How To Get A Credit Refund From Your Electricity Company

Electricity retailer credit refund

If you expect your energy retailer to send you any money they owe you without you asking for it, you may be disappointed.

A reader’s email last week led me down too many rabbit holes, but I think it was worth it. The reader asked us to look into how electricity companies handle refunds of customer credits accumulated under solar feed-in tariffs (FiTs). Can customers get credit refunds automatically, and what happens to credits at the end of a contract? [Read more…]

Solar Scammers On The Prowl

Solar energy scams

Solar shysters are reportedly doing the rounds in Echuca, Victoria, and across the border in New South Wales an elderly woman had her purse stolen by a fake solar salesperson. [Read more…]

IKEA To Sell Solar Power Systems In Australia

IKEA - home solar power

It won’t be long before Australians will be able to buy a solar power system along with their flat-pack furniture at IKEA. [Read more…]

Inner West Council Wants To Boost Region’s Solar 1,000%

Solar energy - Sydney's Inner West

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Sydney’s Inner West Council is aiming to increase solar installations on residential, commercial, industrial and community buildings within its boundaries in a very big way. [Read more…]

Wagga Wagga Council Solar Power Rollout

Wagga Wagga Council - solar energy

Solar panels will soon be installed on several key Wagga Wagga City Council buildings, and with more to come. [Read more…]

Orange Community Renewable Energy Park Plans Unveiled

Orange Community Renewable Energy Park Plans Unveiled

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ITP Development is proposing a solar farm with battery storage for a site approximately 6 kilometres north of Orange in New South Wales. [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

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…]

Canadian Solar Inks Major Panel Supply Deal With Lightsource BP

Lightsource BP and Canadian Solar

Canadian Solar Inc. has announced the signing of a multi-year module supply agreement with Lightsource BP for projects in the USA and Australia. [Read more…]

EIS For Culcairn Solar Farm Released

Culcairn Solar Farm

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The exhibition period for Neoen’s proposed Culcairn Solar Farm project in New South Wales kicked off last week. [Read more…]

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