South Australia council to save more than $80k a year with solar
City of Onkaparinga, south of Adelaide, to install more than 300kW rooftop solar across three sites, in a move council says will save it more than $80,000 a year....
Theme: Communities
W.A. to fund solar farms in six remote indigenous communities
W.A. government to install up to 4MW of solar across 6 remote indigenous communities, in $11.6m budget plan to slash use of heavy-polluting – heavily subsidised – diesel fuel....
CEFC tips $95m into solar powered, energy efficient community housing
Clean Energy Finance Corporation backs Housing Plus to deliver 220 new energy efficienct homes over three years in regional NSW, including solar and battery storage....
Shared solar and communal battery to power 100% renewable W.A. housing estate
A 100% renewable residential development in W.A. will feature blockchain-ready solar homes, a microgrid supply network for water and power and – in what is being claimed as an Australian first – a shared on-site 670kWh battery....
Labor to link 4,000 solar schools in 364MW national virtual power plant
Federal Labor plans to create virtual power plant of solar schools across Australia, through $1bn CEFC loans scheme to help schools invest in rooftop panels and battery storage....
New energy platform connects small solar farms with buyers
South Australia based start-up, Oxamii, has developed a system to make it easier for owners of solar arrays 200kW and larger to sell power on the spot market....
City of Sydney pledges to source 100% renewables in 2020
In a major upgrade from its previous 50% by 2030 renewable energy target, the City of Sydney has committed to purchase 100% of its electricity from renewables, starting next year....
Ausgrid and Reposit unveil 1MW virtual power plant in NSW
Ausgrid and Reposit Power launch pilot 1MW virtual power plant linking the rooftop solar and battery storage of 233 customers across 170 NSW suburbs....
How I got solar installed at my NSW school – and how you could, too
Last year I single-handedly organised, lobbied and arranged funds for a $100,000, 100kW solar panel installation for my school in Sydney’s south. Here's how it was done....
NT councils offered grants to install solar, EV chargers, batteries
Northern Territory Labor government opens $2m grant scheme to encourage councils to move to better energy efficient infrastructure and reduce costs to consumers and taxpayers....
