Victoria’s Legacy Solar Feed In Tariffs End
Victoria’s Transitional and Standard Feed-in Tariff Schemes (TFiT and SFiT) ended on Saturday night, affecting approximately 70,000 solar households and businesses. The TFiT replaced Victoria’s Premium Feed-in Tariff in 2011 and closed to new customers on 31 December 2012. Up until the 31st of December 2016, the TFiT provided participants a minimum rate of 25 […]
The World’s Greenest University 2016
The seventh annual GreenMetric ranking from the University of Indonesia compared 516 colleges and universities in 74 countries against various sustainability criteria, including energy. University of California Davis in USA was ranked first with a score of 8398, followed by University of Nottingham in the UK and Waganigen University and Research, Netherlands. “This ranking not […]
New South Wales Legacy Solar Feed In Tariff – 2 Days To Go
As of just after midnight Saturday, around 146,000 households in New South Wales participating in the state’s legacy solar feed-in tariff scheme will be receiving far less for their high-value solar electricity. As the calendar flips over to January 1, 2017, participants in the NSW Solar Bonus Scheme who had been receiving 60 cents or […]
$155 Million Townsville Solar Farm Project Commences
The winner of a contract to build a huge solar farm in Queensland for the aptly-named zinc metals producer Sun Metals has been announced. The Sun Metals Solar Farm will be built by RCR Tomlinson Ltd and initially have a total capacity of 98.5MWac; with an option to expand to 116MWac. One million solar panels […]
Hawai’i To Accelerate Renewable Energy Expansion
The U.S. state of Hawai’i has set its sights on reaching a target of 48% renewable electricity by 2020 and 100% by 2040. A plan filed with the Hawai’i Public Utilities Commission by the Hawaiian Electric Companies last week outlines the steps for fast-tracking the installation of renewables in the state. The new goals are […]
Mexico’s Big Wind And Solar Power Push
The Government of Mexico says it expects the country to have 20 times the current level of installed solar capacity by the end of 2019. Mexico’s Energy Secretariat (SENER) published a Progress Report last week on the status of clean energy in the country (note: the Government also considers nuclear as “clean”). SENER says the […]
2016 A Solid Year For German Renewable Electricity Generation
Nearly a third of Germany’s gross electricity consumption in 2016 is expected to have been sourced from renewables including wind, solar, geothermal, biomass and hydropower. The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW) last week estimated 32% of the nation’s electricity will have […]
UK Energy Statistics, Q3 2016
The share of low carbon electricity generation in the UK’s energy mix rose to a record high of 50% in the third quarter of this year; up from 43.5 per cent in Q3, 2015. Nuclear generation accounted for 25 per cent in Q3 and the share from renewables such as wind and solar power increased […]
Viva Las Vegas’s Renewable Energy Efforts
The government of the City of Las Vegas is now sourcing 100% of its electricity requirements from renewable energy. Most of the energy consumed is generated at the 100MW Boulder Solar plant. The clean power station is located in Clark County, approximately 36 kilometres southeast of Las Vegas. Boulder Solar commenced commercial operations earlier this […]
Solar Road Trial Inaugurated In Normandy
One kilometre of solar panel road surface was officially unveiled in France last week, consisting of 2,880 Wattway solar panels. The trial, situated in the le Gué-à-Pont locality, was inaugurated by Ségolène Royal, France’s Environment Minister. Expected annual electricity production of the stretch of road is around 280 MWh. On average, estimated output will reach […]
