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Canberrans Brace For Electricity Price Hike

Canberra electricity prices

There’s some bad news for Canberrans after the ACT’s Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission yesterday released its regulated retail electricity price determination, effective from July.

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Proposed Kalgoorlie-Boulder Lithium Refinery A Step Closer

Lithium battery

Australian miner Neometals (ASX: NMT) has signed an option agreement with the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder to sub-lease an industrial estate site for its proposed lithium hydroxide refining facility, which will produce battery grade products.

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Go-Ahead Given For Morwell Power Station Demolition

Morwell Power Station

While recently heritage-listed, the Heritage Council Of Victoria has granted permission for owners of the defunct Morwell Power Station to demolish it.

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WA To Be Home Base For The 100% Solar Powered Zephyr

Solar powered Zephyr

Wyndham airfield in Western Australia will be used as an operations base for Airbus’s Zephyr – a 100% solar powered High Altitude Pseudo Satellite (HAPS).

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DHL Rolling Out Solar Panels On Trucks

Solar panels for DHL trucks

Logistics giant DHL has integrated solar panels on some of its delivery vehicles in the UK, cutting fuel costs and emissions.

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JFY Solar Inverter Fails CEC Testing (Again)

JFY inverter fails CEC re-testing

The JFY solar inverter saga continues, with latest testing performed by the Clean Energy Council at the manufacturer’s request resulting in another failure.

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Australian Solar Systems Interest Index – June 2018

Solar panel interest in Australia

Australians have been installing solar panels at a record rate and there’s still plenty of interest in turning the nation’s naked rooftops into bill-busting electricity generation platforms.

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Landlord Energy — Providing Solar For Commercial Tenants

If you are a business owner there’s an excellent chance you’re not happy with cost of grid electricity and would love to lower your bills with rooftop solar.  Unfortunately, there’s also an excellent chance you rent your business premises and so don’t have much of an incentive to install solar. After all you can’t take […]

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Report Raises Solar Power System Safety And Performance Concerns

Solar safety and performance

While representing a minority of installations, shonky solar in Australia can pose a threat to safety and/or seriously impact on return on investment.

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Trump Wants To Prop Up Coal And Nuclear Power In The USA

Donald Trump

U.S. President Donald Trump has decided to stop ailing coal and nuclear plants across the country from closing, much to the horror of the nation’s gas and renewable energy supporters.

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