More solar drinking water for South Australians as PV powers pipeline
A 358km pipeline that delivers drinking water to tens of thousands of regional South Australian customers is now being powered by the sun....
Theme: Communities
Solar farm joins biogas plant at covered landfill facility in South Australia
A covered waste facility in South Australia has added a 600kW solar farm, boosting the facility’s annual energy output and effectively making it “emissions neutral.”...
Power to the people: Australian battery maker to create solar sharing communities
Queensland-based battery maker RedEarth Energy Storage announces plans to establish Personal Power Plants for community trade of stored solar energy – utilities not invited....
RACV donates solar and batteries to power regional bushfire shelters
RACV Solar will donate and install 28 rooftop solar and battery storage systems at designated “safe places” and bushfire shelters in regional towns across Victoria....
Retailer’s first “shared” community battery to be located in NSW coal country
Enova Community Energy names Kurri Kurri, in NSW Hunter Region, as the site for its first "shared battery" – a part of the retailer's peer-to-peer solar trading trial....
Solar and flow battery microgrid to protect Native American lands plagued by fires
Solar plus storage microgrid being installed at Soboba Band of Luiseño Indian lands, an area threatened by wildfire-related power outages in California....
Hepburn community wind farm looks to add solar and big battery
Australia's first community owned wind farm seeks to add a solar farm and a big battery to its facility....
Another eight NSW hospitals to go solar in boosted government scheme
A $14.5bn boost to NSW Health Solar Program will fund energy saving projects and solar upgrades at nine ambulance stations and eight hospitals across four Local Health Districts....
COP 26 host unveils 100% renewable powered, all-electric building
New office building in Glasgow will be Scottish city’s largest upon completion in time for COP26 in 2021, as well as fully electric and zero carbon emissions....
Solar and battery donated to NSW fire station as another summer approaches
Sussex Inlet fire brigade gifted rooftop solar and battery storage after fighting to protect the south coast township during the 2019-2020 Black Summer of bushfires....
