Republished from RenewEconomy The northern New South Wales city of Lismore has formally opened the country’s largest floating solar installation, and flagged plans to increase its size five-fold or more and to add battery storage. The 100kW floating solar farm is installed on the East Lismore sewage treatment plant, and along … [continued]
SolarReserve has opened its Australian headquarters and a field office near where it will build a 150MW solar thermal power plant.
Originally published on RenewEconomy By Sophie Vorrath The Queensland government has laid claim to the “world’s longest electric vehicle superhighway in a single state” after the first phase of fast charger station installations was completed last month. State transport minister Mark Bailey says EV drivers can now travel from Coolangatta to … [continued]
SHANGHAI — JinkoSolar Holding Co., a global leader in the solar PV industry, today announced that its world record breaking 1177 MW Sweihan project, co-developed by JinkoSolar, Marubeni, and the Abu Dhabi Electricity and Water Authority (“ADEWA”), was named as the Large Scale Solar Project of the Year by the Middle East … [continued]
The Tesla Q4 report has upsides and a few humbling nods to the skeptics.
Tesla will partner with the government of South Australia to create the world’s largest virtual solar power plant involving rooftop solar installations on 50,000 homes within 4 years. The plan is expected to slash utility bills for residents by 30%.
Extraordinary figures continue to roll in from the year that was for renewable energy in Australia, but easily the most outstanding so far are the numbers – and “eye watering charts” – that have just come in on national solar PV installations for 2017.
Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator announced Tuesday that Australia will meet its 2020 Renewable Energy Target following 2017’s record level of clean energy investment.
The death of Australia’s auto manufacturing industry in recent years has been much remarked upon in the media. It turns out, though, that it may have a short-lived death.
Australia recorded its best ever clean energy investment year in 2017, according to new figures from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, taking in $9 billion in 2017, up 150% on 2016 and lifting Australia to 7th position in terms of global clean energy investment last year.
