The Sunshine Coast, as the name would suggest, is one of the most ideal places in the world to install solar with over 30% of the homes in the Sunshine […]
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Newcastle NSW – world’s largest coal port – to get 5MW solar farm
The council of the former “coal city” of Newcastle, NSW, is seeking expressions of interest for a 5MW solar farm to be built on a closed landfill site as part. […]
Rooftop solar meeting 7.4% of electricity demand in SE Queensland: Energex
Rooftop solar is now accounting for around 7.4 per cent of total electricity demand in Queensland’s south-east corner, including Brisbane and the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. The figure is […]
Giant Power residential battery storage solutions
Giant Power is a Sunshine Coast-based battery energy storage system wholesaler specialising in grid-connected, ‘hybrid’ solar-plus-battery solutions as well as conventional off-grid systems. The company has been supplying solar panels, […]
SE Queensland network hits 1GW solar – a system on 3 in 10 homes
Nearly three out of every 10 households in south-east Queensland have invested in rooftop solar, sending the total amount of PV installed on the electricity network operated by Energex past […]
Three in ten SE Qld homes installing solar: Energex
Households in south-east Queensland are installing solar at a rate of three in 10, according to the latest data from network operator Energex, which now has a total of nearly […]
Perth suburb sets sights on solar-powered future
Western Australia’s Wanneroo Council has called for expressions of interest to develop and operate a grid-connected solar farm on local government-owned land in the northern Perth suburb of Neerabup. The […]
Renewable Energy Target deal struck: 33,000GWh with no 2-yearly reviews
The Abbott government and federal Labor have finally struck a bipartisan agreement on Australia’s renewable energy target, with both parties agreeing to slash it from 41,000GWh to 33,000GWh by 2020. […]
Freemantle, WA to build 10MW solar farm on council land
Western Australia’s City of Fremantle has become the latest local government group in Australia to proposed installing a large-scale solar farm on council land, to reduce their carbon footprint and […]
Queensland network operator Energex says it can handle more solar
Queensland power company Energex has bucked the trend of network operators calling for a slowdown in rooftop solar uptake, saying it could cope with a significant increase in PV capacity, […]
Sunshine Coast Council moves close to building Australia’s largest solar farm
The development of Australia’s first local government-owned utility-scale solar farm is one step closer to being realised, after the lodgement of a updated development application this week. Queensland’s Sunshine Coast […]
Sunshine Coast Council shows support for solar in RET Review submission
Queensland’s Sunshine Coast Council has predicted that local governments could lead significant growth in Australia’s utility-scale solar market, developing projects to protect themselves and their ratepayers against rising electricity prices. […]
Sunshine Coast council to invest huge solar farm
The Sunshine Coast, living up to its name, is looking into building one of Australia’s largest solar farms yet. If all goes to the council’s plan, the project will turn […]
Finding Queensland’s best solar power deals
With a strong Solar Feed-in Tariff, Queensland remains the best state in Australia for solar power. Queenslanders who install an eligible solar PV systems may sign up for the most generous […]
Find the Best Deals on Solar Power Installations on the Sunshine Coast, Qld
The Sunshine Coast, Queensland, is a great place to install a solar PV power system. Queensland residents who install an eligible solar PV systems were once eligible for a generous solar feed-in tariff, but […]
