Darwin’s Channel Island Power Station | Image source: Territory Generation
An important construction milestone has been reached for the Northern Territory’s Darwin-Katherine Battery Energy Storage System (DK BESS) project. [Read more…]
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Australian Renewable Energy Storage Target Push Continues
Australia’s Climate Council says $42 billion of private investment and around 100,000 jobs in renewable energy could be created through the implementation of a Renewable Energy Storage Target (REST). [Read more…]
I’ve Calculated CO2 Emissions From Solar Farm Land Clearing: It’s Bugger All.
The best place for solar panels is on your roof. Despite this, over one-third of our solar electricity comes from large-scale solar farms. Their construction can involve land clearing that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
These emissions aren’t good, but they are trivial next to those from fossil fuel generation. [Read more…]
NT’s First Operational Lithium Mine Opened
The first lithium mine in production in the Northern Territory and Australia’s only lithium mine outside WA was officially opened yesterday. [Read more…]
NT’s First Virtual Power Plant Trial Commences
A Virtual Power Plant initiative kicked off in Alice Springs yesterday – the Solar Connect VPP. [Read more…]
Hybrid Power Station For Liontown’s WA Lithium Project
Lithium from Liontown’s Kathleen Valley project in Western Australia will be helping to power electric cars – but what will be powering the mine? [Read more…]
50 Years Of Carbon Capture And Storage (CCS)
You’d think after 50 years of doing something, you’d be pretty good at it. But when it comes to carbon capture and storage, the results are generally abysmal. [Read more…]
July Electricity Price Hikes: Up Everywhere But VIC & ACT — Solar Feed-in Tariffs From +41% To -23%
Most Australians were hit with an electricity price increase in July. The exceptions were the ACT, which had a slight decrease, and Victoria whose electricity prices change now in August. [Read more…]
An Idiot’s Guide To Australia’s Electricity Price Problem
How most Aussies reacted when they found out their new electricity rates.
Unless you live under a rock, you’d have heard about the blowout in wholesale electricity prices in the eastern states. Things were so bad that on the 14th of June, AEMO suspended the wholesale electricity market for the first time in its history. [Read more…]
Australian Solar Prices: June 2022 Update
Which state had the cheapest solar power systems overall last month? Here’s a hint – the initials are WA. Discover what Australians across the country were paying for solar in May 2022. [Read more…]
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