Victorian solar industry members have called on the state government to remove quota caps on its Solar Homes installation rebate program and expand the program by August 1. An industry rally outside Parliament House this morning called for drastic changes to the Victorian Solar Homes Program. Solar installers say the program has been implemented so […]
CleanCo, Queensland’s state-owned clean electricity generating and trading company, wants clean energy projects to bid for contracts in regional investment. Ten renewable projects are short-listed. These include wind farms, commercial solar installations, as well as hydroelectric power stations in Far North Queensland (FNQ). CleanCo will provide up to 400 MW of new generation and storage […]
Tesla has dropped the price of its leading Powerwall 2 battery system for home solar power. The Tesla Powerwall 2 price is now listed at $11,700. This new price is a $650 reduction from the previous list price. For those of us living in states offering solar battery rebates, however, the change might be enough. […]
Victorian solar feed-in tariffs determine how much residents get for the electricity their solar panels feed into the grid. In Victoria, depending on your electricity retailer and your plan, your feed-in tariff can be fixed rate or time-varying. From July 1 2019 to June 30 2020, the minimum fixed rate feed-in tariff your retailer can […]
A lobby group that promotes corporate responsibility is urging AGL Energy to disclose its plans to cut emissions in line with Paris Agreement obligations. The call is the latest in a series of proposals from the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) pressuring AGL to clean up its coal-fired power stations and reduce its carbon […]
Solar installers will rally in Melbourne this Thursday against the “stop-start” nature of Victoria’s popular Solar Homes program. The innovative, state government program sets a national benchmark for state-funded solar rebates and has helped many Victorian households install solar panels and battery storage. However, its sheer popularity is working against it since the government placed a limit […]
Melbourne’s trams will soon be fuelled by 100 per cent solar power thanks to the largest operating solar farm in Victoria, making them green powered trams. At least, that’s the amount of power the 128 MW Numurkah Solar Farm, north of Shepparton, will create. Its array of more than 300,000 solar panels produces enough power […]
The tiny Kingdom of Tonga is using large scale batteries to help it reach a renewable energy target (RET) of 50 per cent by 2020 – and ditch its reliance on diesel generators. The South Pacific island group is boosting renewable capacity by adding the Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) to its Popua Power Station. […]
A new category of electricity traders would see Australia’s biggest users of electricity paid to reduce consumption during peak demand periods using the demand response energy approach . The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) today released for consultation its wholesale demand response mechanism draft rule. This would allow large commercial and industrial electricity users to […]
Solar panels significantly cut the price of wholesale energy in Australia, according to research led by an economist specialising in energy technology. Dr Zsuzsanna Csereklyei is a lecturer in the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing at RMIT University. She says each extra gigawatt (GW) of utility-scale solar power cuts the wholesale electricity price by $14 […]