The 130MW Glenrowan Solar Farm has been energised in northern Victoria and will soon begin generating electricity equivalent to the needs of 45,000 homes. CIMIC Group company Pacific Partnerships energised the Glenrowan Solar Farm on Tuesday and will begin exporting renewable electricity to the national grid in December, ramping up to full production by the…
Registrations have opened for the ACT’s Solar for Apartments Program, offering up to $100,000 in grant funds and access to zero-interest loans to install rooftop solar at apartment complexes. The ACT government says eligible owners corporations can now apply for the funding, 50 per cent of which will be in the form of a grant…
Proposed changes to property tax laws in Victoria risk hobbling renewables growth at the worst possible time, the Clean Energy Investment Group has warned, with the potential to add millions of dollars a year in extra running costs to solar, wind and battery projects in the state. The CEIG says the new threat to Victoria’s…
Heidi Douglas from Solar Citizens talks us through the group’s list of “policy asks” for the upcoming energy ministers’ meeting on Friday, including the establishment of a new body to govern distributed energy resources and subsidies for home batteries. You can find previous episodes of the Solar Insiders podcast here or on your favourite podcast…
LG Energy Solution Australia & SolaX Power are undertaking a safety recall for certain residential energy storage system batteries (ESS
1komma5°, the German smart solar and electrification start-up with a mission to convert 500,000 buildings a year to climate-neutral power, heating and mobility, has had its official launch in Australia. The European conglomerate – whose backers include Porsche Ventures, a founder of Tesla’s European operations, and the co-founder of German battery giant Sonnen – arrived…
A massive wind turbine blade has hit the road, en route to what will be one of the largest off-grid hybrid renewable energy systems to power a mining operation in Australia. Alireza Khatibi, project planning manager at Goldwind Renewable says the 81 meters long blade left the Western Australia port of Geraldton on Sunday on…
Solar power continued to expand its influence over Australia’s main grid on the weekend, setting new records for output and generation share, and helping to send the output of black coal to a new low. The records for solar tumbled on both Saturday and Sunday, according to data presented by GPE NEMLog 2, with the…
Victorian households are facing another sharp cut to amount they are paid for rooftop solar exports, with the state’s regulator flagging plans to ratchet down the minimum flat-rate feed-in tariff to a new low of just 3.3 cents per kilowatt-hour. Rooftop solar tariffs have been on a steep downward slide over the past three years…
Australian researchers have developed a new model of machine learning that will allow them to make, reproduce and test new perovskite solar cells within a matter of weeks, bypassing years of human labour and error. The perovskite family of solar materials holds great promise for creating solar modules that would be flexible – easily deposited…
French renewable energy developer Neoen has gifted ownership of the World’s End Gorge to create new national park that will adjoin what could be the biggest wind, solar and battery project on the country’s main grid. Neoen is currently building its largest wind farm, the 412 MW Goyder South project, and has planning approval for…
Australian wholesale solar distributor Solar Juice has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chinese solar PV giant Trina Solar for 1GW of the company’s Vertex modules. The three-year MoU signed between the two companies will see Solar Juice purchase 1GW worth from across Trina Solar’s complete range of Vertex N modules. Solar Juice has…