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SolarEdge HD Wave Inverter Wins Edison Award

SolarEdge HD-Wave inverter

SolarEdge was named the gold winner in the renewable energy category of this year’s Edison Awards for its HD-Wave inverter technology.

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An End To New Offshore Oil And Gas Permits In New Zealand

Jacinda Ardern ends new offshore gas and oil permits

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced last Thursday that no further offshore oil and gas exploration permits will be issued by the Government, but this doesn’t mean activities will end overnight – not by a long shot.

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Ronald Checks Out 5 Electric Cars On The Streets Of Adelaide

Electric car review - Charge Together

Ronald attended the Charge Together electric vehicle event In Adelaide. Here’s what happened… I attended an electric car event here in Adelaide on Sunday.  I thought it was a reasonable thing to do as I’d recently written about how electric cars don’t result in more CO2 emissions than the typical petrol car. Because some people have […]

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CEC To Solar Installers : Check The Approved Products List

Approved Products List - CEC

Many solar panel and some inverter models have been removed from the Clean Energy Council Approved Products Lists this year – and the CEC has again warned installers not to get caught out.

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Solar To Help Power Queensland Hospital Linen Services

Group Linen Services - Commercial Solar

One of the largest linen service providers in Australia is to have solar panels installed on its facilities in order to cut electricity costs and emissions.

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ABC Check Out Home Solar Power In Australia

ABC The Checkout - Solar Power

ABC’s The Checkout ran a jam-packed 10-minute segment on home solar power basics on Tuesday night, covering a broad range of topics – and SolarQuotes received a couple of mentions. 

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Adelaide’s CBD Could Host More Than Half A Million Solar Panels

Centrepoint Building with solar

Analysis released yesterday by the Australian PV Institute indicates Adelaide’s CBD could support 129MW of solar panels on the rooftops of its buildings.

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Regulator Issues Agent Warning On Non-Existent Solar Installations

STC compliance - solar panels

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has alerted registered agents of a scam involving the creation of small-scale technology certificates (STCs) for solar power systems that don’t exist.

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Apple And Google Achieve 100% Renewable Energy Goals

Renewable energy - Google and Apple

The two technology behemoths say they’ve achieved important renewable energy goals they set for themselves – and both have more renewables in the pipeline.

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Should Electric Cars Be Subsidised?

Nope! But We Should Make Cars Pay For Pollution. So far this year there has been a fair bit of debate over whether electric cars should receive subsidies in Australia.  The Greens are in favor and SA Labor were planning to make electric cars exempt from registration fees up to the point they were defeated in […]

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