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Build It And They Will Come: Transmission Key To 100% Renewable Energy

March 5, 2020 2024-10-02T12:54:25 by 26 Comments
transmission lines

ANU’s Professor Andrew Blakers says we need to build out transmission lines urgently.

If you wanted to block the expansion of renewable energy, a good place to start is to put bureaucratic roadblocks in the way of new, long distance electricity transmission infrastructure.

Discussing his participation in last week’s 100% renewable energy workshop at ANU, the university’s Professor Andrew Blakers told SolarQuotes transmission is the biggest short-term problem facing renewables in Australia. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Big Solar

100% Renewables-Based Electricity For Telstra By 2025

March 5, 2020 2020-03-05T06:55:41 by Leave a Comment

Andrew Penn - Telstra - Renewable Energy

Telstra CEO Andrew Penn yesterday announced three new goals for the company relating to carbon emissions reduction and boosting renewable energy use. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Solar & Storage News

Small Utility Scale Solar Surges In South Australia

February 27, 2020 2024-10-04T07:14:11 by 1 Comment

Small utility scale solar energy

MPower’s Mannum Solar Farm projected is now completed and Terregra Renewables has been given the green light for several solar projects in the Murray Bridge region. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Solar & Storage News

Central Highlands Water Installing Solar For Sustainability – And Savings

February 26, 2020 2020-02-26T07:17:28 by Leave a Comment

Central Highlands Water solar project

Victoria’s Central Highlands Water is increasing its use of solar energy – and its new PV project is thanks in part to people power. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Solar & Storage News

SA’s First Electric Garbage Truck Doing The Rounds

February 25, 2020 2024-06-05T13:19:49 by 5 Comments

Electric waste collection truck

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…]

Filed Under: General Solar & Storage News

How To Get A Credit Refund From Your Electricity Company

February 24, 2020 2021-01-27T14:42:12 by 81 Comments
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…]

Filed Under: Electricity Prices

Solar Scammers On The Prowl

February 24, 2020 2024-08-06T13:56:18 by Leave a Comment

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…]

Filed Under: General Solar & Storage News

Climate Emergency Declared By City of Stonnington

February 18, 2020 2020-02-18T06:29:03 by Leave a Comment

City of Stonnington - solar energy

At a council meeting yesterday, Victoria’s City of Stonnington joined 89 other Australian local governments to have declared a climate emergency. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Solar & Storage News

Has Chief Scientist Alan Finkel Got It Wrong On Hydrogen And Natural Gas?

February 17, 2020 2023-11-24T10:07:08 by 42 Comments

Chief Scientist Dr. Alan Finkel - Hydrogen

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…]

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Goulburn Valley Water Solar Power Rollout Progress

February 17, 2020 2024-08-06T10:14:38 by Leave a Comment

Goulburn Valley Water - solar energy

Victoria’s Goulburn Valley Water’s PV project is well under way, with thousands of solar panels already installed and more than a thousand modules yet to be. [Read more…]

Filed Under: General Solar & Storage News
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