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Australian Standards Must Be Free For The Benefit Of Education, Business And The World.

January 11, 2018 2024-01-25T11:36:48 by 29 Comments
australian solar standards and freddie

People say I have no standards, but that’s only true in a legal sense.  You see, I do have access to Australian Standards that have been purchased by my employer, SolarQuotes.  While these particular standards have a heavy focus on how not to kill people when mucking around with electricity, there lots of other ones […]

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Victorian Coal Power Station Unit Fails – Again

January 11, 2018 2018-01-11T07:20:52 by 7 Comments
Loy Yang A power station - Victoria

A troublesome generation unit at the brown coal-fired Loy Yang A power station again experienced problems early yesterday morning – reportedly the sixth incident in just a few weeks.

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Port Augusta 150MW Solar Thermal Power Plant Approved

January 11, 2018 2024-10-04T07:02:41 by 6 Comments
SolarReserve Aurora Solar Thermal Power Station - Port Augusta

SolarReserve’s $650 million Aurora solar thermal power station project has been granted development approval by South Australia’s State Government.

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Lights Out For FPL Coal Plant, While Solar Powers Up

January 10, 2018 2018-01-10T06:51:40 by 2 Comments
FPL coal retirement and solar rollout

Florida Power & Light (FPL) has shuttered another coal-fired power station and brought four new solar farms online – with more to come.

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Clean Energy Finance Corporation Under Review

January 10, 2018 2018-01-10T05:27:02 by Leave a Comment
Clean Energy Finance Corporation Review

The Department of the Environment and Energy is overseeing a review examining the effectiveness of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) in boosting flows of finance into Australia’s clean energy sector.

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More Solar Savers For Victoria’s City Of Darebin

January 9, 2018 2018-01-09T07:22:37 by 1 Comment
Darebin Solar Saver

The City of Darebin is boosting its Solar Saver program in an effort to help the City increase its installed solar power capacity from 18MW to 36MW.

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Construction To Start On Poland’s First “Designer” Solar Farm

January 9, 2018 2018-01-09T05:34:37 by 4 Comments
Deer shaped solar farm

A 10MW solar farm to be built in Jelenia Góra will have panels arranged in the shape of a city symbol – a deer.

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Claim Australians Back HELE Coal Power Questioned

January 8, 2018 2018-01-08T08:40:35 by 14 Comments
HELE coal power generation survey

Results from a poll indicating 68% of Australians surveyed back so-called high-efficiency, low emissions (HELE) coal fired power generation have been met with a healthy degree of skepticism.

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Yarranlea Solar Farm Construction To Commence Soon

January 8, 2018 2018-01-08T07:28:08 by Leave a Comment
Yarranlea solar farm

The construction of a 100MW solar farm 45 kilometres west of Toowoomba is expected to start early this year after recent approval from the Australian Electricity Market Operator (AEMO).

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Clock Ticking For Coal Power In Great Britain

January 8, 2018 2018-01-08T06:00:43 by Leave a Comment
Coal power in Great Britain

The UK government announced last week how it intends ending unabated coal fired power generation in Great Britain by 2025 – and the date its proposed rules will come into effect.

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