Other Renewables

US beer brand Budweiser has pledged to turn each and every beer green on St Patrick’s Day in the US; not with food dye – as is the tradition for American beer drinkers on March 17 – but with renewable energy. The Anheuser-Busch owned brewer…

Stationary superstore Officeworks has followed its Wesfarmers stablemate Bunnings in pledging to source 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2025, starting with an on-store rooftop solar rollout. Officeworks on Friday…

Aldi Nowra. Image supplied The Australian arm of German discount supermarket chain Aldi has pledged to source 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable resources by the end of 2021, after the rollout out rooftop solar across its stores…

A group of New Zealand’s largest commercial and industrial energy users, including dairy giant Fonterra, has joined forces to procure what could be thousands of gigawatt-hours a year of renewable electricity via one of the nation’s first…

Image: McCain Foods Australia McCain Foods Australia will slash the grid electricity consumption of one of its Victorian sites by just under 40 per cent with the installation of an 8.2MW renewable energy system, including a massive 7MW…

More than 80 organisations have now signed power purchase agreements (RE PPAs) with solar and wind farms in Australia. Without a replacement mechanism following the achievement of national renewable energy target in 2020, RE PPAs are…

Source: Flickr The massive and expanding data centres that enable our online lives are huge energy users. The top 100 data centres in Australia account for four per cent of our total energy use – more than any sector other than resources.…

Aerial view of Robinvale solar farm. Image: Suntech The completion of the 9.4MW Robinvale solar farm last week marked a milestone not just for the project’s developer Suntech, but also for a company called WePower and its plans to open up…