Lorraine Hughes was enjoying solar power long before it became mainstream, but since her retirement took herself back to university and has become an environmental educator. Now, she’d like an electric vehicle.
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Community solar bulk-buy scheme launched in City of Port Phillip
A council backed bulk solar scheme in inner Melbourne is offering 300 discounted rooftop solar systems, and the option for battery storage, to local homes and businesses.
A German energy crowd-funding start-up that aims to make community energy easy
CrowdEner.gy aims to make community energy easy. But recent government changes to the feed-in-tariff have made it a difficult market.
How Garnaut & Co plan to help communities take power back from the grid
New company – chaired by Ross Garnaut – will provide Australian consumers with an option to use 100 per cent renewable energy to power their homes, businesses or entire communities, at a cost cheaper than electricity from the grid.
Tesla journey through Queensland: Charging up with wind power
In Part 3 of this Tesla’s 9,000kms odyssey through Queensland, without a super-charging network, we learn how the car plugged into the only wind farm in the state.
This northern NSW town could be first to decide to quit the grid
The northern NSW town of Tyalgum is considering a proposal to go 100 per cent renewable and to possibly quit the grid altogether, in what would be the first such move by a township in Australia.
South Australia retirement village to be powered by renewable microgrid
University of South Australia to co-develop an energy self-sufficient retirement village, with a renewable micro-grid of solar and battery storage, managed with energy demand software.
How a Tesla travelled 9,000kms through Queensland without super-charger network
The Queensland government’s super charger Electric Highway initiative is great news for EV drivers. But you can make do without it.
Regional Vic health centre going solar via community funding model
Totally Renewable Yackandandah to use highly successful crowd funding model to install 90kW solar at local not-for-profit health care centre.
Australia’s ‘greenest’ hotel pioneers strata fees for solar, and an EV charging station
Port Macquarie Hotel that is 100% carbon neutral uses strata fees to generate 16% return on rooftop solar panels on its roof – rather than sitting in a bank – and even hosts a Tesla charging station.