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Fourteen remote farms in Western Australia’s Esperance region will soon be ditching electricity supplied via conventional powerlines for solar energy based micro power systems (MPS) from Horizon Power. [Read more…]

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A huge number of Australian households who are renters are locked out of solar power savings. A new initiative from the Queensland Government is trialling a way to help address this – but there are a few catches. [Read more…]

Germany’s Sono Motors has released the first images of its solar power assisted electric car – the Sion – as it will appear at market launch. [Read more…]

Better late than never – construction of Risen Energy’s 100MW (AC) Yarranlea Solar Farm west of Toowoomba in Queensland is moving along. [Read more…]

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Karadoc Solar Farm was officially opened last week, while not far away its sister project at Yatpool is under construction. [Read more…]

The trend towards increasingly larger solar power systems continued in February as Australians sought to get the best returns from the electricity bill-busting technology. [Read more…]

Victoria’s  Essential Services Commission (ESC) has set new rates for solar feed-in tariffs from July 2019. The single rate will be boosted,  shoulder/off-peak time-varying rates will be increased and the peak rate slashed. [Read more…]

Gelion Endure – still early days for the aesthetics

A new type of energy storage platform was put to work at the University of Sydney last night by Gelion Technologies. [Read more…]

The Australia Institute’s (TAI’s) latest National Energy Emissions Audit for the electricity sector covering January 2019 has been released. There’s good news – thanks to renewables. [Read more…]

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Progress on Queensland’s new publicly-owned renewables-focused electricity generator continued yesterday, with related legislation introduced to State Parliament. [Read more…]