Six South Australian councils have banded together in an effort to empower local households and businesses to slash their electricity bills and carbon emissions through the use of renewables and energy storage. [Read more…]
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As Summer Sizzles, Coal And Gas Power Wilts
Extreme heat presents the greatest threat to the security of electricity supply in eastern Australia states a new report published by the Australia Institute. [Read more…]
Huge Floating Solar Farm For Indonesia
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Our neighbours to the north-west are getting into floating solar in a big way. A 200MW solar farm is a major project by any benchmark – put that on water and it’s quite extraordinary. [Read more…]
National Energy Guarantee Implementation “Years Away”, If Ever
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The Federal Government may have been granted a go-ahead on Friday by the states to further develop the NEG, but it’s by no means a free pass. [Read more…]
Plans Lodged For Snowtown North Solar Farm
Tilt Renewables has reportedly lodged plans for a 45MW solar facility featuring up to 25MW of battery storage near Snowtown with South Australia’s State Planning Commission. [Read more…]
Why Solar Feed-In Tariffs Are Likely To Fall Within 3 Years
Ronald’s crystal ball says: “The future may bring lower feed in tariffs if wholesale electricity prices tumble.”
Increasing renewables will reduce wholesale electricity prices. Unfortunately that means feed in tariffs will probably fall too.
Solar feed-in tariffs – the payment households receive for surplus solar electricity they send into the grid – are likely to fall within the next three years along with wholesale electricity prices.
The bad news: a fall in both feed-in tariffs and grid electricity prices will reduce the returns from rooftop solar. [Read more…]
CEFC Finances Large-Scale Battery System
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Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation announced this morning it will be supporting Australia’s first unsubsidised large-scale grid-connected battery. [Read more…]
Tesla Powerpack Energy Storage Solution For Nantucket
National Grid has announced a 48 megawatt-hour battery energy storage system will be installed by Tesla on the island of Nantucket. [Read more…]
Hansol Technics AIO Battery System: Don’t Call It A Samsung
Samsung has decided to let their partner, Hansol Technics, take over their residential battery storage systems. However, the rebranding probably wasn’t done by someone cosplaying as Bob Ross.
There are now over 200 Samsung AIO battery systems installed in Australia, providing battery power to households both on-grid and off. Their manufacturer, Samsung, is a giant, South Korean based, multinational conglomerate and if you’d like snag yourself a brand new AIO battery system from them, that’s terribly unfortunate, because you can’t have one.
Call For An SA Government-Owned Electricity Retailer
A new report calls for South Australian government owned, public interest electricity retailer that could also help put low-income households on the path to acquiring solar panels.
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