Plans to build what would be Australia’s largest wind farm, an 800MW project proposed for Victoria’s Golden Plains Shire by German-backed outfit WestWind Energy, have been submitted for planning approval by the state government.
The Bernhardts built the first certified passive house in the Victoria region. Rob went on to become the CEO of Passive House Canada. I recently interviewed him again, during a quick peek at Victoria’s passive houses.
The southern Australian state of Victoria has this week set the country’s most ambitious renewable energy targets of 25% by 2020 and 40% by 2025, at the same time as the government awarded two large-scale solar projects.
A community-driven effort to install just under 100kW of solar and 25kWh of battery storage at a former coal mine site in Victoria’s south-east has won state government funding, lending momentum to broader plans to install solar on community facilities across the region, and at other Parks Victoria sites.
The Victorian government has declared the combination of renewable generation and energy storage as the cheapest source of new peaking power, in documents detailing the state’s $25 million large-scale battery storage scheme.
The popular Westfield shopping center network in Australia is now home to 40 new ChargePoint electric vehicle charging bays (spread across 10 different locations), thanks to a new partnership with BMW Australia.
The Victorian Labor Government has announced it will commit $1 million in funding to establish a series of community hubs to drive renewable energy projects in regional Victoria, while also exploring the renewable energy potential of empty mine shafts in the state’s center.
Elon Musk says he can solve South Australia’s utility grid instability in 100 days or less — or it’s free!
More than 130,000 solar households in Victoria will benefit from a steep increase in their solar feed-in tariff in 2017/18, and will receive a minimum 11.3c/kWh for their exports back to the grid, up from 5c/kWh currently.
UK solar developer Island Green Power has teamed up with local Australian renewable energy developer Overland Sun Farming to construct three large-scale solar projects in Victoria’s north, which together will total 320 megawatts.
