White Bay Power Station To Be Transformed
White Bay Power Station in the Sydney suburb of Rozelle will be reborn as a hub for knowledge-intensive industries. The repurposing of the shuttered coal-fired electricity generator is part of the New South Wales Government’s plan for the transformation of Sydney’s Bays Precinct. “This plan showcases the NSW Government’s ambition for The Bays Precinct to […]
Adelaide Airport Installing More Solar
South Australia’s Adelaide Airport has announced it will install the largest airport rooftop solar power system in the country. The 1.17MW PV array, which will also be the biggest private-sector owned solar power system in South Australia, will slash Adelaide Airport Ltd’s mains supplied electricity consumption and carbon emissions by nearly 10%. The new project […]
Electricity Bills Top Australian Consumer Concerns
Electricity bills remain the no.1 concern for Australian consumers according to the latest Choice Consumer Pulse – and the energy sector is suffering from a significant reputation problem. 70% of those surveyed cited electricity as their biggest concern (79%), followed by food and groceries (73%), fuel (70%), health/medical (67%), car insurance (60%) and water (60%). […]
SMA Achieves 1GW Of Solar Inverter Sales In Thailand
SMA Solar Technology AG announced on Friday it had reached 1 gigawatt of solar inverter sales in Thailand, the fourth market in the APAC region where SMA has done so. SMA said earlier this month that it had reached a similar milestone in Japan; the first non-local supplier to achieve that level. SMA states its […]
Apple To Take Another Big Bite Of Solar
Apple has announced the completion of a major solar project and its intentions to have more constructed. Apple stated construction on 40 megawatts of solar PV in the Sichuan Province of China is now complete and will produce up to 80 million kilowatt-hours per year of clean energy. This is more than the total amount […]
Cool Tools – New Global Wind Atlas Launched
A publicly-available, highly detailed map of wind energy resources around the world has been launched by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). The Global Wind Atlas provides wind resource data at one-kilometre resolution; offering far more detail than other maps available to the public that are 10-kilometre resolution […]
JA Solar Opening Malaysia Panel Plant
One of the world’s largest solar panel producers, JA Solar Holdings Co Ltd, has reportedly invested RM300 million (~ AUD 96.7 million) to establish its first manufacturing plant in Malaysia. The Penang facility will also be the company’s first outside of China. Bernama reports production of solar panels will commence in a few weeks and […]
World Solar Challenge Update
The Netherlands’ Nuon Solar Team are now well past Coober Pedy and their solar car, Nuna 8, is less than 700 kilometres from the World Solar Challenge finish line in Adelaide. The Dutch team and compatriots Team Twente in Red One travelled ‘ nose to tail’ for close to 700 kilometres along the Stuart Highway […]
Australia’s Powerful Battery Storage Potential
The market for solar + battery storage globally is expected to grow tenfold in less than five years – and Australia will be one of the largest markets for battery systems. A new report from the Climate Council says ‘behind-the-meter’ battery storage is expected to experience similar growth to that of solar PV and half […]
Solar Grants Assisting Top End Tourism Operators
The Northern Territory Government has provided grants to NT tourism businesses to fund the installation of solar energy systems. Chief Minister and Tourism Minister Adam Giles recently announced a $27,000 grant for Birding Billabongs NT to install solar power in order to mimimise environmental impact of the operation and boost power generation capacity, while reducing […]
