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40% Of Victoria’s Coal Power Out Of Action During Heatwave While Solar Soldiers On

January 31, 2019 2019-02-06T10:24:36 by 38 Comments
rusty valve

As I’m sure you’re aware, South Australia and the eastern states were hit by a short but intense heatwave last week.  In Adelaide temperatures hit 46.6 degrees on Thursday.  A sweaty record.  It was almost unbearable.  Or at least I think it was unbearable.  I’m not sure because I passed out at about 10 in […]

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OECD Calls Out Australia On Emissions And Energy

January 31, 2019 2019-01-31T06:31:25 by Leave a Comment
Australia Environmental Performance - OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development says Australia it is one of the most resource/carbon-intensive OECD countries, and basically the Government needs to pull its finger out.

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ClearVue’s Solar Glass Approaches Prime Time

January 31, 2019 2024-06-04T15:07:58 by 1 Comment
ClearVue - solar energy glass

ClearVue has installed its solar PV glass at a shopping centre in Western Australia, converting an atrium’s windows into clean power generators.

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Robertstown Solar Plans Publicly Released

January 30, 2019 2019-01-30T07:11:14 by Leave a Comment
Robertstown Solar

Plans have been publicly released for another proposed large-scale solar + energy storage facility near Robertstown in South Australia, the second major project for the area.

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Solar River Project Update

January 30, 2019 2019-01-31T05:19:25 by Leave a Comment
Solar energy project near Robertstown

South Australia’s huge Solar River Project, in the Robertstown region in the state’s Mid-North, is gearing up to get under way.

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New Record Set For Corporate Clean Energy PPAs In 2018

January 29, 2019 2019-01-29T06:55:23 by 4 Comments
Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreements

BloombergNEF (BNEF) reports corporations across the world entered into agreements covering 13.4GW of renewable energy capacity in 2018, more than double 2017’s figure of 6.1GW.

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75-Year-Old Corn Vendor Gets Solar – Internet Goes Nuts

January 29, 2019 2019-01-29T05:20:50 by 1 Comment
Selvamma - solar powered corn vendor

Here’s another great example of the good that solar power can do in making struggling people’s lives a little bit easier.

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JinkoSolar Announces Record Conversion Efficiency For Mono Solar Cell

January 28, 2019 2019-01-28T07:20:03 by Leave a Comment
JinkoSolar cell efficiency record

Solar manufacturer JinkoSolar says it has set a new efficiency record for a large-area N-type TOPCon monocrystalline silicon PV cell.

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Solar PPA For Colocated Facebook Data Center

January 28, 2019 2019-01-28T05:42:06 by Leave a Comment

A Facebook data center landlord in the USA says it has signed a solar power purchase agreement on behalf of the social network giant.

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Labor’s Hydrogen Plan Is A Lead Zeppelin

January 25, 2019 2024-05-15T14:22:04 by 88 Comments

As Michael reported this week, Labor has announced in a media release that, if elected, they will spend $3 million building a “National Hydrogen Innovation Hub” in Gladstone and make over $1 billion available in loans for to develop hydrogen production.  Labor also say they will remove regulatory barriers and make research into hydrogen production, […]

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