The NSW Government says its economy will see $11.6 billion of private investment and thousands of new jobs under Stage 1 of its plan to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. [Read more…]
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More Solar Powered Lighting For Moreland
Victoria’s Moreland City Council will be making greater use of solar powered lighting to improve night-time safety near several sports facilities. [Read more…]
Dumaresq Solar Farm Project Progress
If you haven’t heard of the Dumaresq Solar Farm project in New South Wales yet, it’s probably because little has been written about it. [Read more…]
Build It And They Will Come: Transmission Key To 100% Renewable Energy
ANU’s Professor Andrew Blakers says we need to build out transmission lines urgently.
If you wanted to block the expansion of renewable energy, a good place to start is to put bureaucratic roadblocks in the way of new, long distance electricity transmission infrastructure.
Discussing his participation in last week’s 100% renewable energy workshop at ANU, the university’s Professor Andrew Blakers told SolarQuotes transmission is the biggest short-term problem facing renewables in Australia. [Read more…]
SMA Says Their Inverter’s ShadeFix Software Reduces Effects Of Shade
SMA’s ShadeFix doesn’t fix shade but reduces some of its secondary effects.
A couple of weeks go a reader asked me to write about ShadeFix. ShadeFix is the software German manufacturer SMA include in their solar inverters. This request made me feel a bit stupid because I had no idea what ShadeFix was. [Read more…]
100% Renewables-Based Electricity For Telstra By 2025
Telstra CEO Andrew Penn yesterday announced three new goals for the company relating to carbon emissions reduction and boosting renewable energy use. [Read more…]
Canterbury Bankstown Council Seeking More Solar
Sydney’s City of Canterbury Bankstown has kicked off an expression of interest process for the development of an urban solar farm within its boundaries. [Read more…]
Australian Solar Systems Interest Index – March 2020
In our latest auSSII report we’ve added stats to answer the question everyone has been asking – what proportion of Australian solar buyers are interested in microinverters? [Read more…]
Blacktown City Council Commits To 100% Renewables (Electricity)
On Wednesday night, Sydney’s Blacktown City Council voted in favour of a target of 100% renewable electricity for its operations by 2025. [Read more…]
How To Get A Credit Refund From Your Electricity Company
If you expect your energy retailer to send you any money they owe you without you asking for it, you may be disappointed.
A reader’s email last week led me down too many rabbit holes, but I think it was worth it. The reader asked us to look into how electricity companies handle refunds of customer credits accumulated under solar feed-in tariffs (FiTs). Can customers get credit refunds automatically, and what happens to credits at the end of a contract? [Read more…]
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