Two of Australia’s renewable energy agencies have committed millions in funding to large-scale solar development. Australia’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation has announced a $250 million large-scale solar finance program intended to boost development in Australia. Meanwhile, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) in cooperation with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Last week, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency announced a road-map to reduce the price of large scale solar in electricity, to ensure that it can compete with wind energy within a few years. It predicted a cost of $80-$100/MWh by 2020, underpinned by new funding to … [continued]
This article was first published on RenewEconomy. As operators of utilities desperately clinging to their WWI-vintage business models prepare their Maginot Line defences of altered tariffs and higher connection fees, it might pay them to pull out the periscope and peer over the trenches to see what exactly is about to … [continued]
Fluor Corporation announced today that Arlington Valley Solar Energy II awarded it a lump-sum engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract to construct a 125-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) generating facility in Maricopa County, Arizona, as well as a separate contract for operating and maintaining the power plant.
Well, I don’t think it will come as much surprise, but following up on a CleanTechnica post from last month on the merits of small-scale solar compared to large-scale solar, I thought I’d share parts of a new piece by Solar Energy Industries Association President & CEO Rhone Resch on why we need both (with a little commentary of my own)
