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A 116-MW solar power plant in Terengganu on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia recently announced operations, becoming the country's largest single-axis tracking PV project. Spanning an area of roughly 600 hectares, the solar plant will…

From the ConversationRoss Garnaut is a big beast in the Australian climate policy world, and a Labor favourite since his days as economic adviser to Bob Hawke. His 2008 Climate Change Review shifted the dial on policy, encouraging…

Distributed energy specialist CleanPeak Energy will install a combined 5.4 MW of PV systems atop biscuit manufacturer Arnott’s Group’s two biggest Australian production facilities. The deal will also deliver an energy service agreement for…

Total 1 Shares Victorian Labor says it will install 100 neighbourhood batteries across the state if re-elected later this month, to make the most of the state’s rooftop solar resource and help stabilise an increasingly renewable grid.…

From pv magazine ISSUE 10 – 2022For some the notion of clean mining is almost a contradiction in terms. New research from the Technical University of Berlin and published in the Journal for Cleaner Production found that the…

Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has developed the easy-dismantled solar panel module technology with United Renewable Energy (URE) and San Fang Chemical Industry Co, Ltd., under the support of the Department of…

A week ago, all of the electricity demand in South Australia was met by solar — rooftop and utility — from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. That’s six hours of free power from the sun. Sometime this year (remember, we in the antipodes are heading into…

A new study has calculated that the globalised PV module supply chain has saved billions for PV installers in Germany, the US and China. It also found that if strong nationalistic policies that limit the free flow of talent and capital were…

Sydney’s Northern Beaches Council has seen its energy costs slashed by switching to renewables. October 28, 2022 Blake MatichImage: Northern Beaches council According to the Northern Beaches Council (Council), the electricity costs for…

Nexamp and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 103 celebrated the completion of a solar plus energy storage project at IBEW's headquarters in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The system pairs 220 kW DC of solar…