The first Australian team to complete this year's 3,000-kilometre World Solar Challenge race from Darwin has crossed the finish line in Adelaide in eighth place, hours ahead of their personal best time. The Brisbane-based Clenergy Team Arrow was pushing to make the finish line late yesterday but their car, Arrow1-GT, ran out of power. Despite the [...]
The proposed solar project will be built on top of the existing Kidston mine tailings storage facility. Executive director Simon Kidston said the solar farm would be able to feed up to 150 megawatts of power into the Queensland grid and promises to be Australia's biggest Solar Farm. When developed, the integrated scheme will open up [...]
15th October 2015 Australia's Newly elevated Minister of Resourses, Energy and Northern Australia has said Renewable energy, Wind farms and Solar will be a "key part" of the Federal Government's energy statergy! Policy manager for the Clean Energy Council Darren Gladman said Mr Frydenberg's comments were "extremely encouraging" for the industry, "It is no secret that the [...]
16 November 2012 Today’s reduction of solar incentives by the Federal Government removes the need for further changes to the small-scale part of Australia’s 20 per cent Renewable Energy Target, according to the clean energy industry. Clean Energy Council Policy Director Russell Marsh said the cost cuts stemming from the announcement should effectively mark the [...]
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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA AUSTRALIANS put more household solar panel systems on their roofs than anyone else in the world last year, new data from the Clean Energy Regulator and the International Energy Agency show. The statistic astonished many in the solar industry, given Australia's small population compared with renewable energy market leaders such as [...]
Global Protection Systems is happy to announce it has now secured an excellent supply of Conergy's Premium modules. Conergys PowerPlus 185w panels are German made, they are more efficiency, have better warranties, and are better quality. This superior module together with the SMA inverters now make up our Premium systems, if you are after the best [...]
The solar credits multiplier for small-scale solar pane, wind, and hydro systems is reducing from three to two for eligible systems installed between 1 July 2012 and 30 June 2013. In order to be eligible for the current solar credit multiplier of three (3), the small generation units must be completely installed on or before [...]
As of 8am on the 1st August 2011, the West Australian Government announced the residential net feed-in tariff scheme would be suspended until further notice. WHAT DOES THIS MEEN TO YOU? If you have a solar system installed and are currently receiving either the 27c or 47c net feed-in tariff then this new change will [...]
Net Feed-in Tariff Changes The Western Australian Government has announced changes to the residential net feed-in tariff scheme following a review by the Office of Energy. A new rate of 20 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) will apply to all applications received from 1 July 2011. As with the original scheme, system owners will receive [...]