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New South Wales may well have the biggest fleet of coal generators in the country – even after the closure of the ageing Liddell coal generator in April – but it may be about to stun the energy world with a new, unexpected record for renewables. On Thursday this week, the share of renewables in…

A $500 million solar farm has been flagged as the first project from a new Tasmanian renewables company called TasRex, which has been launched with ambitious plans to build a 5GW portfolio of onshore and offshore renewable projects. The company made its official launch at the Bell Bay Advanced Manufacturing Zone on Thursday, and is…

Australia has set yet another rooftop solar record, this time for average system size, which reach a new all-time high of 9.59kW over the month of September, according to the latest data from SunWiz. In what was a slightly quieter month for installs, compared to August, SunWiz says that number of households installing systems with…

NSW has dominated the rankings of big solar output in September, almost Steven Bradbury-like as its competitors knocked themselves out of the running due to negative average prices over the month. According to the latest data from energy analysts Rystad Energy, solar farms in NSW accounted for 14 of the top 20 facilities in terms…

Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s electricity consumption so far this year, according to calculations by utility association BDEW and the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Wuerttemberg (ZSW). Between January and September, the amount of renewables in the electricity mix rose to around 52 percent – an increase of almost five percentage…

The local government-backed not-for-profit group behind Victoria’s first inner-urban community battery has turned to solar powered public transport to raise awareness of the vital role that shared energy storage can play in the shift to renewables. The Yarra Energy Foundation last year led the installation of a 110kW/284kWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) in…

La Trobe University has announced plans to install what it claims to be the largest “urban solar farm” in Victoria, a 2.9MW PV ground-mounted array and 2.5MW battery (energy storage duration not stated), which will take the total solar generation at the Bundoora campus to 5.8MW. The $10 million La Trobe Renewable Energy Zone will…

Telecommunications giant Telstra says it has signed a deal to take half of the output of a new 120 MW solar farm that is being built in Queensland, its fifth such agreement with large scale renewable projects. Telstra has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to the Munna Creek solar farm that is being built…

Rooftop solar PV continued its middle-of-the-day challenge to the operations of the world’s biggest isolated grid – the South-West Interconnected System in Western Australia – on Monday, sending minimum demand to a record low as it posted a record 76 per cent share of total generation. The new bechnmark came after consecutive weekends of 74…

The latest data released by key energy market institutions shows that the near standstill on new large scale renewable energy projects has continued into the new financial year, with no new solar projects registered in the first two months of 2023/24. The slowdown in new project approvals and financing in the fast half of 2023…

Europe’s largest concentrated solar thermal project has been commissioned in Belgium with a solar field peak yield of 2.7GWh thermal power and storage capacity of 5MWh thermal power. Global packaging and materials manufacturer Avery Dennison officially commissioned the project built in collaboration with CST expert Azteq and long-duration thermal storage provider EnergyNest. A total of…

Plans to develop a massive, multi-gigawatt scale renewable energy hub combining wind, solar and storage in central Queensland have edged forward this week, with an up to 372MW wind farm winning state government approval. Developers RES and Energy Estate said on Wednesday that state planning approvals mark a major milestone for the Moah Creek wind…