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Agriculture and solar working together to open new business opportunities in Melbourne, Australia
December 7, 2015 |
It seems that farmers in Australia are currently the main focus of the energy sector. There has been a lot of controversy recently over coal seam gas mining - or fracking as it’s better known - on agricultural land. Many landowners in rural Austral...
Solar to become more affordable than coal or gas in the near future
December 5, 2015 |
The feel good vibe around the solar industry in the last few months has just got better. Lazard, an independent research and analysis company, has released a report into the cost effectiveness of energy sources. The findings point to solar power, whe...
Solar energy storage growing at a rate of knots
December 4, 2015 |
Back in May of this year, we wrote about battery storage. Whilst not an entirely new concept, its application and use in residential properties meant huge things for a country that was reeling from an attack on its solar industry. A few months down t...
PV solar panel Melbourne efficiency benchmark raised again
December 1, 2015 |
China has made news quite a lot this year in regards to the Australian solar market. First, there was the dumping inquest into their often cheaper panels, which was ironically dumped itself. Then there was the Asian giant’s announcement that it had...
Renewed optimism for Australia’s solar industry from China
May 21, 2015 |
Great news for the Australian solar industry came from China recently, with the solar giant announcing it was well on track to substantially exceed its PV solar generated power target set for 2015 by almost 40%. It also provided the Chinese Governmen...
Australian solar industry wins international tender worth $500,000
May 14, 2015 |
News regarding the breakdown in talks over the continuation of the RET in its current form, was greeted by much more positive news for the Australian solar industry recently - with Cyprus announcing a significant investment of $500,000 in Australian ...
Everything you need to know about the new storage batteries and feed in tariffs
May 6, 2015 |
Albeit a while ago, you may remember us discussing the Victorian State Government’s earlier change to the feed in tariffs, removing all regulatory pricing and leaving it up to the power companies what to charge. The change effectively ended the era...
Federal Government “Dumps” the Anti-Dumping inquest
April 16, 2015 |
Last week, the Federal Government decided to cancel their anti-dumping inquiry into the low prices of Chinese solar panels, signalling a huge win for the solar industry, and for those concerned in the ongoing Senate debate surrounding the Renewable E...
Two key aspects of a high performance PV solar panel
April 8, 2015 |
A common question we find being asked more frequently in the industry, is what exactly goes into making the best solar panels available on the market today? Understanding the composition of your PV panels is an important step to becoming an informed ...
Not all doom and gloom – optimism for the solar industry and energy consumers
April 1, 2015 |
Sometime during this week, the Federal Government will seek to resolve the ongoing Senate deadlock regarding the future of Australia’s flagship renewable energy target. Despite best attempts to force a compromise on what the revised RET target post...