solar
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Solar Feed-In Tariffs Set To Drop In NSW
For solar panel owners, getting a good feed-in tariff – the price at which you sell excess solar energy back to the grid – is important. Yet since the lapse of many of the solar bonus schemes that drove Australia’s initial solar boom, feed-in tariffs have only continued to drop. A new draft FIT benchmark…
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Apple Is Now Powered By 100% Renewable Energy
Every retail store, office and data centre – facilities in 43 countries across the globe. Apple is now completely powered by renewable energy – and 23 of its manufacturing suppliers have committed to do the same.
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Turnbull Abandons Clean Energy Target For ‘Technology Neutral’ Plan
Malcolm Turnbull has once again pushed the idea of a “technology neutral” approach to energy policy, after scrapping the Clean Energy Target recommended by Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Alan Finkel – which Tony Abbott had previously referred to as a “tax on coal”. The CET will now be replaced with a National Energy Guarantee, a…
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WA Bathes In Sunshine But The Poorest Households Lack Solar Panels, And That Needs To Change
Many Western Australian householders are living in “energy poverty”, according to our new Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre research report, Power to the People: WA’s Energy Future.