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SunPower Panels Power 4.4MW Campbell Soup Solar Project

Campbell's Soup - Solar Energy

Campbell Soup Company announced yesterday a 4.4-megawatt solar power project at the company’s World Headquarters in Camden, New Jersey is officially online.

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The SA Election: Energy Policies Compared

On Saturday the 17th of March South Australians will head to school, church, the RSL, or where ever their local polling booth happens to be to cast their ballot in the state government election.  I’ve already received the piece of colored  paper I’m supposed to bring with me so I can vote.  It’s very different from […]

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Abbott (Again) Calls For An End To Solar Subsidies

Tony Abbott - solar subsidies

Surprise, surprise – Tony Abbott has joined the call for an end to solar subsidies – in fact, all new renewables – after backbench colleague Craig Kelly’s recent ill-informed dummy spit.

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Jacinda Ardern Urged To End Oil And Gas Exploration In New Zealand … Now

Jacinda Ardern - coal, oil and gas

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden’s green energy street cred is being put to the test after an open letter was published urging her government to end oil and gas exploration in the country.

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Craig Kelly (Again) Applies Pressure To Slash Australia’s Solar Subsidy

Craig Kelly - Solar Subsidies

Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg is being pressured by NSW Liberal MP Craig Kelly to act on reducing Australia’s solar subsidy, which could be relatively easily done by tinkering with an important mechanism.

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Knitting Nannas Needling Cowper MP Over Coal And Renewables

Knitting Nannas Against Gas - KNAG

Knitting Nannas Against Gas (KNAG) is quite possibly the most likeable pro-renewables and anti-fossil fuels activist group  in Australia.

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Community Energy Storage Trial For Western Australia

Community energy storage

WA’s Western Power will soon give owners of solar panels in the suburb of Meadow Springs a way to “bank” their solar electricity.

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Feed-In Tariffs Hurt The Economics Of Batteries

Installing a home battery system right now will not save you money. Maybe in a year or two it will, but I have a very short time horizon so that’s almost like never to me. As of March 2018 I know of no battery system on the market that will save money for a household that […]

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Australia’s University Of New England’s Solar + Storage Project Approved

University of New England solar + battery project

The University of New England in Armidale, New South Wales has received the green light for construction of a solar farm that will also incorporate battery storage.

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AEMC Wants Your Solar Power And Battery System Information

Solar and battery system register

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) wants to establish a national register of small-scale distributed energy resources –  including battery storage and rooftop solar power systems.

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