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Check Out A Solar Farm In October

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Image: Edify Energy

If you’ve always wanted to take a look around a solar farm, towards the end of October may offer you an opportunity to do so. [Read more…]

Solar Savings For Mitchell Shire Council In Seymour

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Image: Mitchell Shire Council

Seymour Sports and Aquatic Centre in Victoria’s Mitchell Shire is now sporting a 99kW solar power system. We’ll just have to assume that’s what the folks in the photo above are pointing to. [Read more…]

Dynamic Solar Export Limits: SA’s Smart Way To Integrate More Solar

dynamic solar energy export limits

SA Power Networks plan to use dynamic export limits to allow more people to get rooftop solar power – whilst maximising allowable solar energy exports. Brilliant.

When the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) released its Economic Regulatory Framework Review, “Integrating Distributed Energy Resources For The Grid Of The Future” (PDF here) last week, media reactions had a pessimistic, almost apocalyptic slant. [Read more…]

Hobsons Bay Council Headed For Carbon Neutrality

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Image: John Shadbolt, CC BY 2.5

Victoria’s Hobsons Bay City Council appears confident it will reach its goal of attaining “carbon neutrality” in terms of its own operations in 2020. [Read more…]

SolarQuotes Vodcast Episode 32 – Days Of Wine And Panels

Finn and Ronald discuss battery fails, AusNet forcing new solar households onto ToU, hydrogen hype, LG’s new AC solar panel and more. [Read more…]

SolarQuotes Vodcast Episode 31 – The C Word

SQ cops a cranky caller, getting the most from solar power, concerns over the CEC’s Approved Solar Retailer Scheme and more. [Read more…]

Adelaide Climate Strike Protestors Deserve Climate Justice

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Small Protestors Take To Streets In A Big Way

On Friday I took to the streets as part of the Climate Strike protest.  It was something I had to do.  Something I owed to my children.  Something I owed quite literally, as they had paid me 60 cents to attend. [Read more…]

Yarra City Council’s 100% Renewables Powered Electric Tipper

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Victoria’s Yarra City Council recently acquired an electric tipper truck, said to be the first of its type in Australia. [Read more…]

Millions Gear Up For Global Climate Strike

Global Climate Strike

Tomorrow marks the start of climate protests across the planet on a scale that is likely to be the largest the world has ever seen. [Read more…]

More Solar Energy For Gippsland Water

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Victoria’s Gippsland Water announced last week it had installed more than 1,800 solar panels as part of its quest to slash the corporation’s carbon emissions. [Read more…]

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