Rio Tinto to Use Solar PV to Power Queensland Mine Mining giant Rio Tinto has unveiled a groundbreaking plan to use a solar PV plant to provide electricity to one of its key bauxite operations in Queensland. As part of efforts to achieve energy savings in Australia’s high-cost operating environment, Rio Tinto will oversee the […]
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The CRC for Low Carbon Living Vision and Pathways 2040 Project held a workshop this week to discuss how Sydney and Melbourne can be transformed through green, smart technologies, and create a vision for what the cities will look like in 2040. Here are some ICT-enabled projects that were highlighted at the workshop. Onsite solar […]
The analysis shows that scrapping or reducing the renewable target would strongly benefit power generators rather than consumers. Although costs to the average household would fall by AUD 10 (USD 9) a year for the first four years if the target is abolished, prices would surge thereafter due to less supply and competition in the […]
The Queensland Competition Authority has released its final report on a feed-in tariff for regional areas of the state for 2014-15, recommending a feed-in tariff of 9.07 cents per kWh QCA delivers recommendation for solar feed-in tariff | The Australian.
With the pending removal of the RET Solar system prices are set to jump. The rise could be as much as $4500 in the case of a 5Kw system, should the RET be abolished and the STC prices fall. If you’re considering Solar then Now is the lowest I would expect to see prices for quite some […]
With Australian electricity prices amongst the highest in the world, more and more households are going solar. The big power companies say the Renewable Energy Target is undermining their businesses and they want it wound back. The federal government agrees, so who is to blame for the high price of power? Jess Hill investigates. via […]
A QUEENSLAND company that sold allegedly faulty circuit breakers that caused at least 70 burnouts in rooftop solar panel arrays has gone bust, leaving tens of thousands of homeowners at risk of electrical fires. Advancetech, based on the Sunshine Coast, went into receivership on Friday, only four days after Queensland Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie ordered the […]
Grains and pulse producer, The Woods Group, has installed a 90 kilowatt solar system in Goondiwindi, Queensland. Funded by the Australian Government’s Clean Technology Food and Foundries Investment Program, the system features 360 panels, installed by local business Laser Electrical Goondiwindi. Laser Electrical Goondiwindi Managing Director Jeff Cairns said The Woods Group would see a […]
Furnishing giant IKEA yesterday will roll out a solar panel energy system across its East Coast stores, resulting in the largest commercial installation in Australia.Collectively, the installation, across seven IKEA buildings, will include over 16,000 panels, with an annual output of 5,495 million kilowatt hours of electricity. All five stores in Queensland, Victoria and NSW, […]
The electricity network business serving southeast Queensland, Energex, expect s this week it will have connected a quarter of a million solar PV systems to its network. Energex is finding that even though the government has slashed the price solar owners are paid for their electricity, down from 44 cents per kilowatt-hour to just 8 […]
