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Victorian Budget Funds For Renewable Newstead Solar Farm Project

Renewable Newstead - solar energy

Monday’s budget held good news for solar buyers throughout Victoria, but the town of Newstead had an additional reason to celebrate with the honouring of an election commitment.

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$545 million For Solar Homes Package In Victorian Budget 2019/20

Victorian Budget 2019/20 - Solar Energy

The Victorian Budget 2019/20 sees $545 million allocated towards rolling out the next phase of the state’s $1.3 billion Solar Homes Package, which for solar power system subsidies restarts in July.

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ABC 7:30 Report On Shonky Solar: Fair Comment Or Beat-up?

Leigh Sales - ABC 7.30 report on solar power

Who saw the 7:30 report last night? Its lead story was questioning the safety and quality of the Australian solar power industry. Leigh Sales promised to reveal “the dark side of Australia’s solar obsession”.

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SolarQuotes Vodcast Episode 17 – Bureaucracy, Batteries And Beans

SolarQuotes vodcast episode 17

Finn and Ronald cover the outcome of the recent election, solar rebates in Victoria, REC’s new solar panels, Ronald’s New Energy Tech Consumer Code submission, beans and more.

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ACT Feed-in Tariff Audit Could End With More Customer Refunds

feed in tariff ACT

We assume ACT solar installers already know that Evoenergy has had data problems, but we thought we’d take a look at what’s going on in case solar feed-in tariff schemes run into issues anywhere else.

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Angus Taylor – Minister For Lowering Electricity Prices *And* Emissions

Angus Taylor - Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction

Angus Taylor, the “Minister for Lowering Electricity Prices” is now also the minister for getting emissions down, or doing stuff that appears to achieve that.

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Solar Powering Huggies Production Plant

Solar Energy - Kimberly Clark - Huggies Factory

Kimberly-Clark has flipped the switch on huge rooftop solar power system that will generate equivalent to 15% of the electricity used by its Huggies diaper (nappy) and baby wipe factory in Tuas, Singapore.

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Solar Power For Orange Regional Airport

Orange Regional Airport - solar energy

Orange Regional Airport’s new solar power system won’t be a particularly big ‘un, but every panel and every clean kilowatt-hour counts.

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The New Energy Tech Consumer Code — I Submit!

New Energy Tech Consumer Code submission

On Friday I wrote about how the New Energy Tech Consumer Code was seeking submissions.  Given its current state I said it could definitely do with some, so I’ve typed up mine and and put it below.

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Solar Energy Key To Achieving Electricity Access For All

Electricity Access For All

The world is falling short of meeting UN global energy targets states a new report, but solar power can play a bigger role in helping it get there.

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