Presented by Energy Matters team member Virginia, we take a look at some of the stories from Australia and around the world recently added to our renewable energy news section.
In this episode, Virginia covers Australia’s top solar postcodes, Energy Matters announced a winner of this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards, big solar gets a big break in Canberra and the World Bank financing a massive solar farm in Morocco.
In this episode:
– Figures released by the Office of the Renewable Energy Regulator show over 520,000 small scale solar power systems were installed throughout Australia at the end of September this year. A full breakdown of the top 10 post codes is available on the Energy Matters website. Read more.
– Energy Matters has been announced a winner in this year’s Deloitte Technology Fast 50 awards program, as well as the runner up in the program’s Leadership Award category. The program ranks 50 of Australia’s most rapidly growing public or private technology companies, based on percentage revenue growth over three years. Read more.
– The ACT Labor Government has tabled legislation to support the development of large scale solar power facilities in Canberra. Minister for Environment and Sustainable Development, Simon Corbell says the Electricity Feed In Bill 2011 is the first time a feed in tariff for commercial scale solar power has been proposed by an Australian government.. Read more.
– The World Bank has announced it will step in to help Morocco finance the 500 megawatt Ouarzazate Concentrated Solar Power Plant. The project will be key to the country’s plan of achieving 2000 megawatts of installed solar energy capacity by 2020. Read more.
