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Melbourne buildings retrofit with solar panels

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... 101 Collins Street has reduced from 12,000,000 kWh/annum to just 6,700,000 kWh/annum - a drop of 44%." The 330 watt solar panels will be used to offset the cooling of the building's tenant condenser water system, said Councillor Arron Wood, chair of ...

AGL opens Nyngan, Broken Hill solar plants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... City Council, and local communities. See Also: ARENA selects 22 projects for $100m funding round AGL installs first solar panels at Nyngan solar plant

CEFC to provide up to $30m financing to City of Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... more environmental upgrade agreements, AU$800,000 will be allocated to complete the installation of 300kw of rooftop solar panels on Council and community facilities such as the Carlton Baths and Carlton Resource Centre and the remaining AU$4.4 million ...

Utilities sector face material ESG issues: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... again, is both a threat and an opportunity. Sustainalytics found that the global installed capacity for grid-connected solar panels increased by 338% from 2009-2012, and also notes that "the traditional large-scale production of electricity is evolving ...

CEFC, CBA finance car dealership energy efficiency loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
A Sydney car dealership has taken out an AU$320,000 Energy Efficiency Loan to install 1,000 solar panels and more than 100,000 LED lights. Rooftop solar PV installation at Col Crawford Lifestyle Cars (photo courtesy CEFC) Col Crawford Lifestyle Cars ...

Mirvac reports on first year of new sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... map out how we get there and to our surprise [we found], if you look at all the roof space that could be used for solar panels today, we can generate enough energy today to make our business net positive. The cost would be around $130m, but it would ...

Challenges, opportunities in Australia's energy future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... which a third of consumers unplug from networks and generate and store their own energy through a combination of solar panels, gas generation, storage and energy efficiency; and renewables thrive, where "storage supports a 100% share of renewables in ...

ARENA funds expansion of Doomadgee Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... started work on the project, which is due to be completed by September 2017. The existing solar farm features 1056 solar panels and "50% instantaneous power penetration, which pushes the technical limits of the system spinning reserve and diesel engine ...

AGL installs first solar panels at Nyngan solar plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... first solar panel modules at its large-scale solar plant in Nyngan, New South Wales. AGL has installed the first solar panels at the Nyngan Solar Plant. L-R Ray Donald, Bogan Shire mayor; Ivor Frischknecht, ARENA CEO; Kevin Humphries, minister for natural ...

Don Henry named fellow at University of Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... efficiency have grown rapidly in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. The recent tremendous growth in Australian rooftop solar panels represents the equivalent of shutting down a large coal power station and taking away all the pollution that this ...