Covid-19

As Australia’s National Electricity Market moves toward five-minute settlement on 1 October, many energy retailers are grappling with the technology needed to reconcile customer use with energy spot market prices within the new interval.…

More than 100 Australian businesses, including some of the country’s largest, have banded together to put pressure on government to commit at least 1% of GDP to a green energy recovery in the May budget and to ensure a more equitable…

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…

Rooftop solar installation figures in Victoria have plunged dramatically in recent months but an easing of Covid-19 restrictions has provided a welcome boost for the state’s small-scale solar installers. October 23, 2020 David CarrollSolar…

Toowoomba’s Grand Central shops are currently getting a solar treatment, over 2,400 panels installed through a partnership between the QLD State Government and Yurika. QLD Energy Minister Anthony Lynham said QLD is behind renewables. August…

An international group of researchers, including The Australian National University’s (ANU) Prof Frank Jotzo, has published a study today in the journal Nature Climate Science showing the importance of a ‘just transition’ as coal is…

The Western Australian Government’s $5.5 billion WA Recovery Plan was released yesterday, the plan features $66.3 million in renewable energy investment, most of that to go on solar and batteries, along with a significant top up of the…

Thanks to the Covid-19 many of us find ourselves in lockdown with little reprieve other than a morning potter or an evening stroll. In Goulburn, thanks to what is being called Australia’s largest solar lighting installation, locals can now…

As some of us may be honest enough to admit, humans are procrastinating animals. While there are some, like Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy author Douglas Adams, who love the sound deadlines make as they whoosh past, most of us…

New economic modelling from Accenture’s AlphaBeta has found 76,000 clean jobs just waiting to be created over the next three years if a green recovery from the twin recoveries from the Black Summer Bushfires and Covid-19 were implemented.…