1,000 extra subsidy packages have been added to the Queensland Government’s solar and storage scheme – but it’s likely they won’t last long. [Read more…]
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Green Light For 1.5GW Solar + 500MW Battery Storage Project In Queensland
A development application for a 1,500MW solar farm boasting 500MW of battery storage1 has been given the go-ahead by Queensland’s Somerset Council. [Read more…]
Queensland Solar Battery Grant/Loan Scheme Starts Today
While the QLD Government says its battery and solar + storage grants and loans are the next wave in the state’s renewable energy revolution, its effect will be more of a ripple. [Read more…]
Solar + Flow Battery Installation For Queensland’s Heron Island

Image source: Heron Island Resort
University of Queensland’s Heron Island Research Station (HIRS) on the Great Barrier Reef will soon build on its existing solar installation and add battery storage. [Read more…]
Clive’s Queensland Coal Power Plant Plan Snubbed
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the state does not need Clive Palmer’s proposed 700 MW coal fired power station – and Mr. Palmer is not happy. [Read more…]
Queensland Government Kicks Off CleanCo

Image: Queensland Government
The Palaszczuk Government announced yesterday afternoon it has commenced establishing CleanCo, Queensland’s new renewable energy, publicly owned electricity generator. But it won’t be all renewables. [Read more…]
Queensland’s PowerWells Looks To Help Out In Lombok
Logan based PowerWells has been producing off grid micro-solar kits for remote communities in Indonesia and has turned its attention to the unfolding situation in earthquake-ravaged Lombok. [Read more…]
Queensland’s Solar Schools Tender Kicks Off
A tender process has commenced for the Queensland Government’s $97 million Advancing Clean Energy Schools (ACES) program, which will see solar power systems installed on the rooftops of hundreds of schools. [Read more…]
Green Light For Queensland’s Rodds Bay Solar Farm
Gladstone Regional Council has approved the development application for Rodds Bay Solar Farm, a 300MW PV-based facility to be built near the township of Bororen; approximately 50km south of Gladstone. [Read more…]
Queensland’s Interest Free Solar Loan Scheme Is Kind Of Sad
The Queensland Government recently confirmed the details of their interest free loan scheme for rooftop solar. Michael — the guy who does the real writing work on this blog instead of mostly just stringing together old jokes as I do — wrote about this and the conditions that have to be met to qualify for a loan in this article here. [Read more…]
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