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Advanced Energy Resources’ proposed Yallabatharra solar and wind project, which will include battery storage, has received development approval from Western Australia’s Northampton Shire Council. [Read more…]
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Australian Standards Must Be Free For The Benefit Of Education, Business And The World.
Australian Standards must break free. Charging hundreds of dollars per standard is nuttier than wearing high heels while vacuuming.
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 covering almost everything you can think of – and quite a few things you’d be very unlikely to think of. [Read more…]
Clean Energy Finance Corporation Under Review
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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. [Read more…]
More Solar Savers For Victoria’s City Of Darebin
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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. [Read more…]
Claim Australians Back HELE Coal Power Questioned
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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. [Read more…]
Yarranlea Solar Farm Construction To Commence Soon
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). [Read more…]
Clock Ticking For Coal Power In Great Britain
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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. [Read more…]
Rooftop Solar And Exclusion Zones: Where Solar Panels Dare Not Go
How close to the edge of the roof should your solar panels go?
In the past I’ve written about solar panel clamping zones which determine where, on a solar panel’s edge, you can place the clamps that attach the modules to their mounting rails. What I didn’t do was go into just where on a roof solar panels can and can’t be installed. [Read more…]
280MW+ Of Big Solar In The Pipeline For Victoria’s Moira Shire
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The Shire of Moira looks set to be home to at least two and possibly three large scale solar farms in the near future. [Read more…]
China’s Solar Electricity Generation Up 72%
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Solar power systems installed in China cranked 106.9 billion kilowatt-hours of clean electricity last year through to the end of November according to the country’s National Energy Administration. [Read more…]
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