Sonnen wins R&D award for Adelaide battery plant
German battery giant wins Australian gong for transforming former Adelaide car factory into a battery manufacturing and export hub for Asia Pacific region....
Category: Policy
Australia’s biggest steel city, Wollongong, targets net zero emissions by 2050
The NSW home to Australia's biggest steelworks, Wollongong, has committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2050, with a view to reducing that timeline to 2030....
NSW government taps solar to power aquatic, agriculture research hubs
850kW of solar across three NSW government research facilities will cut their grid energy use by 19%, and their annual electricity costs by 22%, or $210,000 a year.
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Winners and losers from Victoria’s rooftop solar rebate scheme
Solar Victoria has released an expansive data set explaining the detail of which companies got what in the Labor state government's sometimes controversial rooftop solar rebate scheme. Here's what it tells us....
City of Moreland calls on community to install more solar, drive electric
Moreland City Council proposes raft of community-based goals, including doubling rooftop solar uptake and switching to electric vehicles, as it aims for zero carbon in 2040....
“Reliable renewable” solar and battery microgrid powers S.A. Produce Markets
Autonomous Energy completes massive state Liberal government-backed microgrid combining 2.5MW solar PV, 4.2MWh Tesla battery storage, and 2.5MW diesel generator....
Thousands more Victoria solar rebates snapped up, battery uptake still flat
Another 3,000 rooftop solar rebates snapped up in Solar Victoria's mid-November offering, but government's expanded battery scheme still not gaining traction....
Three cheers for stand-alone power systems in regional W.A.
After three years and 200-plus hours of power outages saved across six properties, stand-alone power systems are the front-runner technology to transform power reliability for rural WA....
Victoria extends solar battery rebate offer to another 80 postcodes
Victoria extends reach of solar battery rebate in effort to drum up interest from solar households, but only two taken up in latest offer....
Massive 1.3MW rooftop solar system completed at Cairns DFO
One of Queensland’s largest commercial solar systems – and a survivor of the state’s recent battle over large-scale PV installation rules – completed on rooftop of Cairns DFO....
