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The latest set of clean energy statistics compiled by the International Renewable Energy Agency signal a changing of the guard when it comes to clean power, with legacy hydropower facilities overtaken by new intermittent renewables. April…
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This is my last article at Greentech Media. Thank you all, and look for me on Twitter @jeffsaintjohn to keep in touch. * * *Greentech Media closes its doors this week. But the energy transformation it’s been chronicling…
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Victorian-based property developer Beulah has announced its soon-to-be-completed Paragon tower in the heart of Melbourne will be home to the nation’s largest and most efficient vertical solar PV system. April 8, 2021 David CarrollThe $200…
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Non-stop PV manufacturing capacity expansion has been a near-constant feature of the solar landscape over the past decade. Back to 2008 or even 2014, when market demand was trigged by early subsidy programs and an increasing awareness of…
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The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has once again thrown its idea for a solar tax in the ring, insisting Australia’s grids will be destabilised by the midday flood from solar-exporting homes and that shifting grid infrastructure…
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Australia might have had a surprisingly good year of home battery installations in the year of the Coronavirus, but Germany smashed it out of the park, with the addition of more than 100,000 residential battery systems in 2020 taking the…
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The project pipeline for wind farms around Australia is filling faster than ever before, writes Jeremy Chunn. Whether these future facilities will power the NEM or hydrogen exports, it’s clear that investors back the technology. But will…
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Follow Julian on Twitter @JulianSpector and subscribe to Bright Ideas, his free weekly newsletter on the rise of clean energy. ***When your job involves occasionally illustrating the collapse of companies with a stock image of a skull,…
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Dutch research institute TNO has released a series of guidelines to reduce fire hazards in rooftop PV installations. The study follows a series of fire accidents that occurred between 2018 and 2020 in the Netherlands, for which the main…
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The energy storage hopeful behind plans to build Australia’s first gigawatt-scale lithium-ion battery factory has joined forces with the CSIRO to develop a home gown, “defence grade” battery management system, or BMS.Energy Renaissance,…
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