The Australian Solar Council unveiled their Hall of Fame, honouring many of Australia’s leading solar practitioners. The inaugural inductees include some of Australia’s greatest solar scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs – representing a group […]
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Climate Change Authority releases final report on the Renewable Energy Target (RET) Scheme
The Climate Change Authority released it’s final report on the Renewable Energy Target (RET) Scheme at 10am on Wednesday 19 December 2012. The recommendations made in the report will require legislative change […]
Minute by minute: new solar data tool to assist solar projects
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has developed the One Minute Solar Data interface providing a range of solar statistics, including global, diffuse, direct and terrestrial irradiance and sunshine-seconds for 20 locations round Australia. […]
Construction on Silex Solar Systems concentrating PV demo plant underway, PV production resumes
Australia’s Silex Systems has announced both that construction on its Mildura, Victoria concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) demonstration plant, and also that subsidiary SilexSolar will resume production of solar panels at its […]
South Australia Solar Feed-in Tariff: Minimum retailer payment comes into effect
A provision for a mandatory ‘retailer payment’ under South Australia Solar Feed-in Tariff scheme has come into effect as of 29 January 2012. The state’s Solar Feed-in Tariff scheme is […]
Tindo: Australia’s home-grown solar panel manufacturer
See our up to date review on Tindo Solar Panels. The global solar power industry has seen unprecedented turbulence over the last several years, and Australia is no exception to […]
Solar PV system prices reaching unprecedented lows. Why? And how long will it last?
Solar PV system prices have hit all-time lows in Australia, according to Solar Choice’s team of Solar Energy Brokers. These solar price declines are due to a perfect storm of […]
Solar power sees major growth across Australia in 2010-2011
Australia’s installed solar power capacity has grown 35 times what it was in 2008, according to a report (pdf) recently released by the Clean Energy Council of Australia. The report covers […]
Australia to see 37% average rise in electricity prices by 2014
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has released a comprehensive review of the future of electricity prices across Australia. This report lends substance to speculation about the topic of energy […]
Dyesol Solar: Dye-and-nanotech Solar Photovoltaics
Dyesol is positioning itself to revolutionise the solar photovoltaics (PV) industry by making available an innovative but still largely uncommercialised PV technology: the Dye Solar Cell (DSC). DSC is a […]
ACT Large-scale Feed-in Tariff details released
The Australian Capital Territory government released the detailes of its feed-in tariff (FiT) for large-scale and commercial solar power systems. Feed-in Tariff rates will be determined by an […]
Increasing electricity disconnection complaints in NSW and Victoria
The number of complaints related to electricity and gas disconnections due to financial hardship has increased significantly in both NSW and Victoria, according to the states’ Ombudsman’s offices. The two […]
8-10c/kWh: NSW Solar Bonus Feed-in Tariff amount draft determination
The New South Wales Independent Regulatory and Pricing Tribunal (IPART) has announced its draft determination on a ‘fair and reasonable price’ for grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems today. The voluntary […]
Silex, Australia’s only solar PV panel manufacturer, stops production
Update 21 February 2012: Silex Solar has resumed production of solar panels. Silex Solar, the solar photovolatic (PV) manufacturing wing of the Silex group and Australia’s only PV panel manufacturer, […]
Construction begins on Australia’s largest solar farm
Construction began on Australia’s first and largest solar farm in Western Australia on 4 November. The Greenough River Solar Farm is a utility-scale generation plant, meaning that it produces enough […]
How much is the new Transitional SA feed-in tariff? ESCOSA
South Australia’s independent industry regulatory body–The Essential Services Commission of South Australia, or ESCOSA–has released a draft determination about its recommendations for the electricity retailers’ contribution to the state’s Transitional […]
Carbon Price legislation passes in Australian senate
In an historic move that is expected to usher in an era of investment in clean technology investment, the Australian senate has passed legislation to put a price […]
$4 billion in coal subsidies in NSW?
The Auditor-General of NSW released a report today condemning the previous Labour government’s implementation of the Solar Bonus Feed-in Tariff Scheme, which became political hotpoint last year when it was […]
NSW Solar Update: IPART terms of reference released for next feed-in tariff
The NSW government bureaucratic machinery has been set into motion to determine what will be “a fair price for solar power”–‘fair’ depending of course on whose interests you happen to […]
