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Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets
Fridge chewing more power than it should? Ask your smart meter
Sophie Vorrath20 Jun 20180 comments

Is your TV running? Not the opening line of a joke, but serious question smart meter giant Landis+Gyr wants to be able to answer for customers – before they even ask.

Other Renewables
Packaging giant taps "baseload green power" in Victoria wind PPA
Sophie Vorrath19 Jun 20180 comments

ASX-listed packaging giant Orora will soon source 80% of its power from renewables, after signing second renewable PPA in a matter of months, this time for electricity generated by the 228MW Lal Lal wind farm, being built in Victoria.

Solar
Australian smallgoods giant to slash grid consumption with 3.2MW solar system
Sophie Vorrath15 Jun 20180 comments

Primo Smallgoods set to install one of Australia’s largest commercial solar systems – a 3.2MW rooftop array at its Wacol plant in Brisbane.

Battery/Storage, Solar
Lightsource BP to enter Australia household solar and battery market
Giles Parkinson13 Jun 20180 comments

BP's solar reboot to target Australia's booming residential solar and battery market, with no-upfront-payment offer.

Other Renewables
"IceGrid" proposes stored wind power for remote Canada provinces
Andrew Burger13 Jun 20180 comments

Proposal to replace diesel plants with grid-connected, wind powered, battery energy storage microgrids throughout the northwestern Canadian provinces wins CanInfra prize.

Policy, Solar
Solar Insiders Podcast June 8
Giles Parkinson and Nigel Morris13 Jun 20180 comments

Solar blackout scares, panels overboard

Electric Vehicles, Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets, Solar
My long switch to solar
Victor Bivell13 Jun 20180 comments

After many years of planning, I finally flicked the switch and installed a rooftop solar energy system. But that is just the beginning of our household's journey away from fossil fuels.

Energy Efficiency, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Port Macquarie Base Hospital to install 609kW rooftop solar system
Sophie Vorrath13 Jun 20180 comments

NSW hospital set to save $130,000 a year with the installation of a 609kW rooftop solar system – "Australia's largest" on a health care facility, yet, it claims.

Battery/Storage, Other Renewables, Solar
Birdsville bids farewell to geothermal, opts for solar and battery storage instead
Sophie Vorrath7 Jun 20180 comments

Plans to replace Australia’s only utility-owned geothermal power station in remote Queensland town of Birdsville dumped in favour of distributed solar and storage.

Other Renewables, Solar
Unilever to run all Australian factories on 100% renewables by 2020
Sophie Vorrath7 Jun 20180 comments

Global consumer goods manufacturer Unilever says it has "started its journey" in Australia to sourcing all grid purchased electricity from renewables by 2020.

Solar
University of Queensland goes 100% renewable with 64MW solar farm
Giles Parkinson7 Jun 20180 comments

UQ becomes first major university to source 100% of power needs from its own renewable asset, joins growing list of Australian corporates turning to wind and solar.

Other Renewables, Solar, Tariffs
Making the case for 10-year renewable electricity tariffs
Tosh Szatow6 Jun 20180 comments

For a fair, efficient, low-cost pathway to 100% renewables, we need to put front-of-meter renewables on a level footing with rooftop renewables and enable customers to sign 10-year front-of-meter PPAs.

Energy Efficiency, Solar
How all-electric solar homes could save owners thousands
Sophie Vorrath6 Jun 20180 comments

ATA says gas power uneconomic in new-build homes anywhere in the country. In fact, new homes that go all-electric, plus solar, could be ahead by as much as $18k over 10 years.

Solar
Victorian salad grower installs field of solar, to power operations up to 100%
Sophie Vorrath6 Jun 20180 comments

Mornington Peninsula farming business adds 505kW ground-mount PV system to 99kW rooftop solar, in hope of cutting electricity costs by further $86k a year.

Battery/Storage, Solar
Solar and battery underway in Australia's "largest" renewables microgrid
Sophie Vorrath5 Jun 20180 comments

Second phase underway in plan to power Pilbara town of Onslow with 50 per cent renewables, with contracts for solar farm and utility-scale battery storage awarded.

Software/Gadgets
Power companies less trusted by consumers than banks, telcos
Sophie Vorrath4 Jun 20180 comments

Survey finds Australian consumers' lack of trust in power companies holding back the shift to a smarter, cheaper grid.

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