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Enwave details design of solar and battery powered industrial park in W.A.
Sophie Vorrath11 Dec 20190 comments

Details revealed of 1.2MW solar and 1MW/2MWh battery system that will power the 1000-hectare Peel Business Park in Western Australia's Murray Shire.

Solar, Policy
NSW government taps solar to power aquatic, agriculture research hubs
Sophie Vorrath9 Dec 20190 comments

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.

Other Renewables, Energy Efficiency, Solar
Mirvac pledges to go all-electric, all renewable powered by 2030
Sophie Vorrath6 Dec 20190 comments

ASX-listed property group becomes latest Australian company to join global RE100 initiative, with plan to transition to all-electric buildings powered by 100% renewables before 2030.

Solar
Solar Insiders Podcast: Rooftop solar: Asset or liability?
Giles Parkinson and Nigel Morris5 Dec 20190 comments

Rooftop solar installations continue at record rate, but new technologies - and new thinking - ensure that this turns out to be a major asset to the grid, rather than liability, as is sometimes portrayed.

rooftop solar system panels up close renters
Solar, Energy Efficiency
Bosch Australia taps solar, efficiency as global giant goes “carbon neutral”
Sophie Vorrath5 Dec 20190 comments

Bosch Australia installs 3,000-panel rooftop solar system at Victoria headquarters, as global industrial giant announces plan to be carbon neutral worldwide by 2020.

Other Renewables, Battery/Storage, Software/Gadgets, Solar
Huge wind turbine parts complete 630km journey to ground-breaking microgrid
Sophie Vorrath5 Dec 20190 comments

Australia’s first mining sector project to use wind in a large hybrid renewable microgrid is starting to take shape in W.A.'s northern goldfields region.

Other Renewables, Solar
Pernod Ricard achieves 100 per cent renewables target in Australia
Andrew Spence5 Dec 20190 comments

Two major solar projects and a PPA has seen Pernod Ricard Winemakers become Australia’s first major wine company to source all its electricity from renewables.

Solar, Software/Gadgets
New rooftop solar “urban power stations” to play both sides of the meter
Sophie Vorrath4 Dec 20190 comments

Epho and Siemens technology aimed at unlocking “tens of gigawatts” of industrial rooftop solar that can be used for local consumption or sold into the market.

Tariffs, Solar
Victoria regulator cuts rooftop solar tariff, wants mandatory time-varying FiT
Sophie Vorrath4 Dec 20190 comments

Essential Services Commission wants retailers to offer customers choice of “single rate” feed-in tariff or a FiT that ranges from 9c/kWh and 12.3c/kWh, depending on the time of day.

Solar
ISPT rolls out solar to another 12 commercial and retail properties
Sophie Vorrath3 Dec 20190 comments

Property fund manager's $11.6m round 2 of rooftop solar installations expected to generate 5,352,900kWh of electricity a year, save customers and tenants $1.5m a year.

Solar
NSW notches up new national record for rooftop solar installations
Sophie Vorrath3 Dec 20190 comments

A record 60MW of rooftop solar capacity installed in NSW in November – a new monthly high for any state in Australia - as 200MW national figure broken again.

Solar, Software/Gadgets
Australia’s rooftop solar boom can be good news for networks: study
Sophie Vorrath2 Dec 20190 comments

Rooftop solar has unveiled voltage issues in the grid, but is not necessarily the cause. A new study shows how it can help address these voltage issues.

Solar
Noosaville library taps “Sun King” solar panels for curved roof install
Sophie Vorrath1 Dec 20190 comments

Flexible solar panels installed on library on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, in what is claimed to be Australia’s first curved-roof solar installation.

Solar
UNSW student-designed solar freezer installed on remote Fiji island
Sophie Vorrath28 Nov 20190 comments

Students from University of New South Wales design and install solar powered deep freezer in a remote fishing village on Viwa Island, off coast of Fiji.

rooftop solar suburb rebates victoria - optimised
Policy, Solar
Winners and losers from Victoria’s rooftop solar rebate scheme
Nigel Morris28 Nov 20190 comments

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.

Solar, Battery/Storage, Software/Gadgets
Solar and battery microgrid achieves 90% renewables for W.A. gas hub
Sophie Vorrath26 Nov 20190 comments

Horizon Power says its newly commissioned solar and battery microgrid in the Pilbara town of Onslow is already helping to deliver up to 90% renewables, and more reliable power.

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