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AEMO Says They Will Support A Broken Market System That Puts Lives In Danger

January 6, 2020 2020-01-06T12:17:58 by 25 Comments
AEMO - Draft 2020 Integrated System Plan.

You would think the middle of a horrendous bushfire season — at a time when large areas of New South Wales were ablaze and air quality in Sydney was worse than Shanghai thanks to smoke hanging in the air like the ghost of gums before drifting out to sea — would be a bad time […]

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Australia Likely To Suffer 1,000 Or More Excess Deaths From Bushfire Smoke

January 6, 2020 2020-01-07T15:18:07 by 14 Comments
Deaths from Australian bushfire smoke

According to UQ Economics Professor, John Quiggin, Australia is likely to suffer 1,000 or more excess deaths due to smoke pollution from the current disastrous bushfire season.

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A Slow Start For 2020’s First Victorian Solar Panel Rebates 

January 6, 2020 2020-01-06T06:47:07 by 2 Comments
Victoria Solar Homes update

As at 6AM this morning, Solar Victoria’s website indicated 578 rebates for home solar power systems remained in January’s first round.

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Horsham Rural City Council Harvesting The Sun

January 6, 2020 2020-01-06T05:22:32 by Leave a Comment
Horsham Town Hall - solar power

Horsham Town Hall is now reaping the benefits of solar energy, with more solar panel installations for Horsham Rural City Council assets on the way.

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JA Solar To Build New Cell And Panel Manufacturing Plants

January 3, 2020 2020-01-03T04:47:37 by Leave a Comment
JA Solar panels

Chinese PV manufacturer JA Solar has announced intentions of expanding its manufacturing capacity with the construction of two new factories in Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province.

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Australian Solar Systems Interest Index – January 2020

January 2, 2020 2020-01-02T12:17:59 by Leave a Comment
auSSII Australian solar power report - December 2019

The last month of 2019 didn’t see the usual degree of slowdown in interest from Australians wanting to bust their electricity bills by installing a solar power system.

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Australia’s Solar Rebate In 2020 – What You Need To Know

January 2, 2020 2020-01-02T05:50:53 by 11 Comments
Australia's solar rebate in 2020

The start of the new year brings changes to Australia’s hugely popular solar rebate – but solar power system buyers may not see any significant impact.

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Nuclear Power Plant Reactors In Germany, Sweden Shut Down For Good

January 1, 2020 2020-01-01T09:13:40 by Leave a Comment
Nuclear reactor shutdowns in Sweden and Germany

As Europe increasingly turns to renewable energy based electricity generation options such as wind and solar power, the plugs have been pulled on another 2 nuclear reactors.

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Baringhup Solar Farm Gets Go-Ahead

January 1, 2020 2020-01-01T05:57:42 by Leave a Comment
Baringhup Solar Farm

A controversial solar energy + battery storage project in the Shire of Mount Alexander in central Victoria has reportedly been given the green light by the state’s planning minister.

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Europe’s Largest Solar Farm Completed

December 31, 2019 2019-12-31T10:04:34 by Leave a Comment
Iberdrola Núñez de Balboa solar farm

Spain’s Iberdrola has announced completion of construction of the 500MW Núñez de Balboa solar farm project in the country’s western region of Extremadura.

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