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Queensland Government Appliance Rebate Scheme Announced

Energy efficiency rebate in Queensland
Queensland solar owners (and all Queenslanders) looking to further reduce their electricity bills can take advantage of a new energy efficiency rebate. [Read more…]

CEC Recommends Home Battery Storage Grants For Queensland

Battery system grants - Queensland

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Among its policy priority recommendations ahead of Queensland’s election, the Clean Energy Council has suggested a small battery grants scheme and other actions to support energy storage be implemented in the state. [Read more…]

Queensland Election Solar Scorecard

Queensland election solar scorecard

Solar Citizens has released its Solar Scorecard for the Queensland election – and there’s no surprises as to which parties lead and lag on renewables. [Read more…]

Queensland Labor Pledges Solar Funding

Powering Queensland's Future

Advancing solar energy in Queensland will remain an important focus under a re-elected Palaszczuk Government. [Read more…]

Queensland’s Normanton Solar Farm Cranking Up

Normanton Solar Farm

Image: Doug Scouller – Normanton Solar Farm

Houses and businesses in the Normanton area of Queensland’s Gulf Savannah region will soon be primarily powered by electricity produced by the Normanton Solar Farm.

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Construction To Commence on Queensland’s Kennedy Energy Park

Kennedy Energy Park - Queensland

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Construction is set to begin on the $160 million Kennedy Energy Park; the first large scale solar power, wind and battery hybrid project to be connected to the grid in Australia.

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University Of Queensland A Solar Powerhouse

Solar energy at University of Queensland

UQ’s recently released Sustainability Scorecard 2016 reveals the University generated more than 8.8 million kilowatt-hours of electricity from its 47,000+  solar panels last year.

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University of Southern Queensland To Save Millions With Solar Power

Univerisity of Southern Queensland solar energy installation

Solar panels lifted onto the roof of USQ Springfield’s Building B

Stage two of University of Southern Queensland’s Sustainable Energy Solution project is well under way, with solar panels being installed on rooftops at USQ’s Springfield and Ipswich campuses.

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Queensland’s Delga Solar Farm Gets Green Light

Shell Australia solar project

Another major solar energy facility approved for the Western Downs

Western Downs Regional Council has approved development of another large solar farm in its region – this one a Shell Australia project.

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More Progress On Queensland’s Hayman And Daydream Solar Farms

Solar farms in Queensland

Daydream + Hayman Solar Farm = 2 million solar panels | Image: First Solar

Interconnection agreements have been finalised for Edify Energy’s Daydream and Hayman Solar Farms, which will be connected to Powerlink’s 275kV network near Collinsville in Queensland.

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