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Tumut Shire Council to slash electricity costs after upgrade

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... a ground source heat pump system and the cost of installing new T5 fluorescent lights. The council also installed a 30kW solar PV array and ceiling insulation. Tumut is in the foothills of the Snowy Mountains, around 400 kilometres southwest of Sydney. ...

Margaret River Winery installs SunPower solar system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Watershed Premium Wines, a Margaret-River based winery, has installed a 149-kilowatt solar power system that the winery says will offset electricity use by 30%. Photo Courtesy of Watershed Winery Watershed had a SunPower solar power system installed ...

CEFC commits $30 million to EUA financing fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... designed to halve its energy use through an upgrade to the plant room, chillers and boilers, new energy efficient elevators and solar film on windows. Utility cost savings of more than $80,000 a year are expected. In Parramatta, tenants and owners of ...

AGL commences construction on Nyngan Solar Plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
AGL Energy has begun construction on the AU$300 million Nyngan Solar Plant. Construction on the Nyngan Solar Plant will take approximately 18 months to complete, and the plant is expected to be fully operational by June 2015. It will deliver 103 megawatts ...

ARENA co-funds South Australia solar thermal power study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will contribute AU$1 million to a feasibility study into solar thermal power generation at Port Augusta, South Australia. ARENA will partner with natural gas and electricity provider, Alinta, and the South ...

IIGCC joins International Climate Bond Standards Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Defense Council. A Climate Bonds certification is issued to bonds that are backed by qualifying green assets - wind farms, solar energy plants, energy efficiency investments, low-carbon transport and other projects. Approved third party verifiers review ...

Australia passes 2m mark for small-scale renewable systems

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... displace approximately 6,882 gigawatt hours of electricity annually, with 4,182 gigawatt hours generated from small-scale solar, wind and hydro installations and a further 2,700 gigawatt hours displaced by solar hot water systems and air source heat ...

Expanded EUAs could generate $4.5bn investment in Victoria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... outside of commercial office space - that show potential. The research really highlights the potential for industrial scale solar as well, and we see a lot of interest in that level of projects." EUAs are agreements between a building owner, local council ...

Westpac discloses environmental, social, financial metrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... AU$43.6 billion has been lent. "Progress to date has been primarily in renewable energy including two major wind farms and a solar farm," the bank said. "This work has been further supported by the establishment of a CleanTech Working Group with representation ...

United Nations recognition for Pollinate Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
Pollinate Energy, a not-for-profit social enterprise that provides affordable solar lighting to people in India's urban slums, is one of 17 projects recognised by the United Nations Climate Change secretariat. Pollinate Energy and the 16 other projects ...