By: Soleira If you have always wanted to take a look around a solar farm, towards the end of October may offer you an opportunity to do so! Clean Energy Open Day on Sunday 27th October will see public accessed permitted to 16 wind and solar farms across Australia. The areas where PV facilities will …
Victoria’s Hobsons Bay City Council appears confident to reach its goal of attaining “carbon neutrality” in terms of its own operations in 2020. The City of Hobsons Bay is a local government area in Melbourne covering 65 km² that incorporates suburbs including Altona, Williamstown and Newport. Back in 2008, the Council developed a Greenhouse Action …
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New South Wales’ Blue Mountains City Council has set a goal of becoming carbon neutral by the end of 2025, and solar energy is expected to play a role. Among the projects being undertaken towards carbon neutrality are the installation of energy efficient lighting across Council facilities, replacing street lighting, and installing 289 kW of …
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By: Soleira The Marshall Government wants to see SA leveraging its wind, solar energy and land resources, infrastructure and skills to be a world-class renewable hydrogen supplier. South Australia’s Marshall Government has taken the wraps off its plan for making the state a major green hydrogen producer and exporter. To be formally launched on September …
By Soleira: The ACT Government has announced the builder of the Territory’s second zero-emissions school, and says detailed design work for construction has already begun. Construction of the new school in Molonglo Valley is expected to start this year to be ready for operation for the start of the 2021 school year. Molonglo Valley is …
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By: Soleira The Clean Energy Regulator’s Solar Panel Validation program ensures modules used in an installation are genuine, are backed by warranty, meet standards and are eligible for Australia’s “solar rebate”. It also expedites claims for small scale technology certificates (STCs), on which the solar rebate is based. Validation is achieved through a mobile app …
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By: Soleira 675kW of solar capacity in total was recently installed at Gippsland Water’s office in Traralgon and water/wastewater treatment plants at Warragul Victoria’s Gippsland Water announced last week it had installed more than 1,800 solar panels as part of its quest to slash the corporation’s carbon emissions. The utility says the systems will collectively …
By: Soleira The Adelaide Advertiser reports (paywall) French company Neoen will announce “Goyder South”, which is to be constructed in the Burra region. The Advertiser states the total project involves 1200MW of wind power, 600MW of solar energy capacity and 900MW of battery storage. The first stage will be one-third the capacity of each, with …
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By: Soleira Last week, the Government released its ‘Climate change in Western Australia – issues paper’, which covers 11 focus areas including transforming energy generation. WA’s McGowan Government is calling on Western Australians to have their say on climate change policy, including issues related to energy. Around 28% of dwellings in Western Australia have solar …
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Utilities Watercare and Vector yesterday announced a megawatt-scale system to be constructed atop a wastewater treatment pond at Watercare’s Rosedale facility in Auckland’s North Shore. PV project in New Zealand will not just be the nation’s largest solar power installation, but also its first floating solar farm. “It’s the first time floating solar will be …