The Victorian Labor government revealed plans to extend its target for renewable energy generation to 50 per cent by 2030, if it is re-elected in this month’s state poll. The […]
Tag: RET
Australia could be 100% renewable by 2030s, meet Paris targets by 2025
Australia could reach 100 per cent renewables by the early 2030s, and smash its Paris emissions targets five years early, all by doing nothing more than maintaining the current pace […]
RET very much in reach with record $7.5bn renewables spend
Australia is experiencing its biggest ever investment spree in large-scale renewable energy, according to two new sets of data, putting the 2020 renewable energy target well within reach. The Clean […]
Australia can reach 100 per cent renewable energy says CSIRO
The nation’s chief scientific body has advised there are no technical barriers to prevent Australia from achieving 100 per cent renewables on its electricity grid, and that levels of around […]
Victorian government to build Australia’s first grid scale battery storage facility
Victoria’s Labor government is calling for expressions of interest to build a 20MW battery storage array, in what would likely be Australia’s first grid scale battery storage facility. The 20MW […]
Modelling from government advisor shows high RET may be cheapest option
Modelling from the federal government’s preferred energy market advisor reveals that a high renewable energy target offers the cheapest avenue for consumers to reach the country’s modest emissions reduction targets […]
LGC price spikes as government comes closer to RET deal
Comments from within the Abbott government suggesting an agreement on the RET could come as soon as Easter have helped push prices of large scale renewable energy certificates (LGCs) to […]
Commercial PV Price Index – March 2015
Commercial solar system prices continued their subtle decline between February and March of 2015, according to pricing data from installers in Solar Choice’s network. All prices are net, incorporating incentives […]
Silex Systems, citing RET uncertainty, suspends plans for Mildura 100MW demo CPV plant
Plans for a first-of-its-kind, 100MW concentrated solar power plant in Mildura have been shelved, after the Australian Renewable Energy Agency agreed with the project’s developer to withdraw funding. The plant, […]
Solar will dominate new generation capacity buildout to 2030: BNEF
Solar looks set to dominate new electricity capacity and investment in Australia, with a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicting solar PV will account for nearly half of […]
Solar industry will see massive expansion to 2030 despite RET fears: BNEF
Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts that solar capacity in Australia will reach 23GW by 2030, underpinned by rooftop solar that will resist most industry attempts to stop its rollout. Kobad […]
ICCP reports: scale up renewable energy for decarbonisation
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has said that renewable energy sources such as wind and solar must lie at the core of a massive decarbonisation of the world’s […]
Solar power in Penrith, NSW: Compare systems & prices
Penrith residents have access to some of the most affordable solar power systems in all of Australia, thanks to its proximity to the population center of Sydney. This article investigates […]
Western Sydney solar power: Why get a system?
Sydney is home to some of the lowest solar power system prices in all of Australia. This article takes a look at why solar power is a good investment for […]
Could Palmer United Party support for renewables save the RET?
Update: Clive Palmer has contradicted his WA PUP senate candidate Dio Wang, saying the RET should not be mandatory. It is unclear what his party’s official stance on renewables is. […]
Minnesota’s ‘Value of Solar’ approach to net-metering: A model for Australia?
The solar industry in Australia has not been without its share of political & policy calamities. Government policy–especially on the state level–must appear to both those inside and outside the […]
EnergyAustralia: Rooftop solar to blame for falling wholesale electricity costs & demand
The explosion of rooftop solar PV has caused grief to another major incumbent utility in Australia, with EnergyAustralia, one of the big three utilities in the country, blaming it for […]
Climate Change Authority throws what weight it has behind the RET
Like the Carbon Tax, the fate of the Climate Change Authority (CCA) is more or less sealed, with the federal government having vowed to dismantle it once it gains control […]
39% of Australians think Renewable Energy Target is ‘about right’, 25% ‘too low’ according to poll
The federal government’s ire towards Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) appears to be seriously out of proportion with public sentiment regarding the incentive scheme, if the results of an Essential […]
REC Agents Association analysis: Renewable Energy Target helps reduce power bills for everyone
The solar industry has launched its campaign to save industry incentives by releasing a new analysis that demonstrates the cost of the those incentives on household bills is effectively zero. […]
With Renewable Energy Target review underway, solar industry takes facts into battle
The review of the federal Renewable Energy Target is now officially underway–and it will be ‘extensive’. The government, having made clear on numerous occasions its intentions of eliminating ‘green tape’ […]
How you can help save Australia’s Renewable Energy Target
Renewables are currently in the hot seat as electric utilities lobby to eliminate or weaken the primary incentive mechanism left in Australia that supports them: The Renewable Energy Target. It’s […]
Ikea dumps 10MW solar plant in Spain as retroactive solar cuts come into effect
Sweden’s iconic furniture chain Ikea has pulled the plug on one of its largest solar investments in Spain as budget-saving, retroactive subsidy cuts came into effect. The 10 megawatt (MW) […]
Hunter Valley vineyard to cut power bills with 200kW solar system
Hunter Valley’s Drayton Family Wines recently powered up a 200 kilowatt (kW) solar farm with the intent of saving money on its power bills, following suit with thousands of other businesses […]
Australian Solar Council kicks off campaign to save the Renewable Energy Target
The Australian Solar Council has launched a campaign to protect the Renewable Energy Target (RET) and to ‘save solar’. The Solar Council has thus far been one of the most […]
Axing the small-scale renewables target could cost 7,000 solar jobs
The Australian solar industry – which employs more people than the gold mining, and oil and gas industries, and nearly as many as coal mining – could lose nearly two […]
US solar job growth is booming. What’s in store for Australia?
Renewable energy is booming in the United States, with renewable technologies accounting for 37% of the new electricity generation capacity in the country in 2013. With this has come a […]
Utilities & generators pushing for weaker small-scale Renewable Energy Target
The rooftop solar PV industry in Australia is likely to see some or all of its tariff support and other incentives removed because of pressure on the government from leading […]
2013: The Australian year in solar
2013 was a huge year full of ups and downs for the solar industry globally and in Australia. What were some of the most important milestones, events and trends of […]
Renewable Energy Target review results: ‘Small-scale’ solar threshold stays at 100kW
The review of the federal government’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) has come to a close, and the results are mostly good news for Australia’s solar industry. Most importantly, the 100kW […]
