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Weekend read: a trojan horse for decarbonisation
It was a Saturday morning when Sydney-based billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes, partnering with Canadian investment giant Brookfield Asset Management, put in a shock bid to buy Australia’s biggest power company AGL. The massive “gentailer,”…
Sun shines on the richest: New study explores how to make solar PV viable for all
More government support with greater flexibility is needed to make solar panels a viable option for elderly homeowners, student renters and the disabled, new research from the University of Sussex Business School warns.
The research calls…
It’s Time for Charles Koch to Testify About His Climate Change Disinformation Campaign
The US House Oversight and Reform Committee kicked off its investigation of the fossil fuel industry’s decades-long climate change disinformation campaign last fall by inviting top executives from BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell to…
Can the future grid be fair to all? Alice Springs could be test bench for Australia
Glenn Platt, a world-recognised former clean energy program leader at the CSIRO, remembers coming across two low-income housing tenants throwing a power cord over the back fence to share some excess solar.“OK, you can switch on now,” Platt…
Queensland company promises to turn noxious weeds into ‘green coal’
Queensland company Green Day Energy has begun trialling its proposition to convert the invasive weeds species, prickly acacia, to biomass for the purpose of generating electricity, biochar and hydrogen. April 4, 2022 Bella PeacockGreen Day…
Midsummer signs multi-million euro CIGS thin-film panel deal with PugliAsfalti
Midsummer, a Sweden-based solar company, has signed a five-year multi-million euro deal with an Italian roofing company, PugliAsfalti.
According to the signed agreement, PugliAsfalti will purchase up to 6.5 MW of Midsummer's thin-film CIGS…
California Solar Energy — Attacks on Solar Net Metering, Rooftop Solar’s Many Benefits
There have been attacks on solar net metering for a decade or more, due to the fact that net metering shifts revenue and profit from utilities to individual homeowners. An extreme attack on California solar net metering arose in the past…
Massive object could be an interstellar moon, a rare find
Astronomers may have found a moon that's completely different from anything in our solar system.It's only the second space object discovered that may be an exomoon, or a moon outside of our solar system. The giant moon was found orbiting a…
Broome community batteries to unlock 1.4MW of solar hosting capacity
The rollout of rooftop solar in the remote coastal town of Broome in northern Western Australia is set to get a boost with state-owned regional energy provider Horizon Power installing two centralised community batteries that are expected…
SB Energy receives investment led by Ares to accelerate solar and renewable deployment
SB Energy announced today that funds managed by the Infrastructure and Power strategy of Ares Management Corporation (Ares) are leading a strategic equity investment of up to $600 million, including capital from potential co-investors, in…