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Solarcentury and IKEA launch residential home battery in UK

Thu, 2017-08-03 13:22
The new product, available to U.K. online customers, will retail from £3,000 for a standalone battery, or from £6,925 for the solar panel-plus-battery package.
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Australia’s pumped hydro storage potential worth thousands of Tesla big batteries

Thu, 2017-08-03 13:21
ANU researchers identify 5,000 potential pumped hydro energy storage sites, which they say could support a 100% renewable Australian grid – 35 times over.
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Solar is now most popular form of new electricity generation worldwide

Thu, 2017-08-03 13:20
Solar PV outstripped coal as the leading source of new electricity generation worldwide last year.
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The things some utilities will do to stop solar

Thu, 2017-08-03 12:40
The FBI is investigating an Arizona power company for its role in the election of utility-friendly and anti-solar regulators.
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Once bitten, twice shy: Sri Lanka dumps new coal plans

Thu, 2017-08-03 11:55
In a dramatic U-turn, Sri Lanka’s energy regulator has approved a new long-term electricity supply plan that rejects the construction of any new coal plants between now and 2037.
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No small beer: Foster’s, VB to go 100% renewable by 2025

Thu, 2017-08-03 11:50
Some of Australia's most iconic beers are set to be brewed using solar and wind after Foster's Group and CUB parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev pledged to shift its 6 terrawatt-hours of annual energy consumption to 100 per cent renewables by 2025.
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S. A. could dump gas plans if batteries, demand response deliver

Thu, 2017-08-03 10:44
South Australia has given itself the option to cancel the installation of a permanent government-owned gas generators. Given the huge response to ARENA's demand response EOI, and new storage projects, it is hard to see why a new plant is needed once the next two summers are negotiated.
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Superannuation trustee duties and climate risk

Thu, 2017-08-03 10:36
A new legal opinion on climate change and trustee directors’ duties has wide-reaching ramifications for Australia’s $2.3 trillion superannuation industry, Environmental Justice Australia said today.
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SolarEdge announces Second Quarter 2017 Financial Results

Thu, 2017-08-03 10:22
SolarEdge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SEDG), a global leader in PV inverters, power optimizers, and module-level monitoring services, today announced its financial results for the second quarter 2017 ended June 30, 2017.
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EVs: Go hard, save big, say AGL and researchers

Wed, 2017-08-02 15:23
ClimateWorks urges Australia to go further and quicker on vehicle emissions standards, because the cost savings and health benefits to consumers will be even greater, while AGL says EVs can help transition to a decarbonised grid.
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Trump succeeds where Abbott failed and kills renewables R&D

Wed, 2017-08-02 15:07
Donald Trump has achieved something that Tony Abbott tried and failed to do – the complete elimination of an agency funding clean energy research.
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Conergy to focus on Australian solar after buyout led by Goldman Sachs

Wed, 2017-08-02 14:54
Conergy says acquisition by US-based funds including Goldman Sachs will strengthen its big solar and battery storage development in Australia and Asia-Pacific.
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Tesla joins effort to pair batteries with offshore wind

Wed, 2017-08-02 13:27
The US EV and battery maker has teamed up with Deepwater Wind to create the largest offshore wind farm with large-scale storage.
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People want fewer cars in cities – not everyone knows it yet

Wed, 2017-08-02 13:24
We only think we like cars when we can’t imagine getting around without them. In German town of Freiburg, citizens are taking their streets back.
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The EV bandwagon is accelerating, but is it unstoppable?

Wed, 2017-08-02 13:23
There are plenty of reasons to criticize the 2040 bans laid out by France and the U.K. But we can now envision a future dominated by electric vehicles, and it is time to join the bandwagon and work towards that goal.
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Energy independent vehicles key to solving grid problems

Wed, 2017-08-02 08:28
The UK National Grid has announced that peak impact of electric cars in the UK will be equivalent to capacity of 6 nuclear plants.
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Will solar powered cars ever be real?

Tue, 2017-08-01 15:02
The Sunswift team has designed and built Eve to be registered as a road legal sports car, representing a shift in solar powered transport from conceptual to commercial vehicle standards.
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How much will a Tesla Model 3 cost in Australia?

Tue, 2017-08-01 15:01
The best way to estimate the prices is to use Tesla’s own configuration prices for the USA/Aus Model S and then scale them for the lower numbers.
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Welfare lobby’s misguided and self-defeating attack on solar

Tue, 2017-08-01 14:35
Welfare lobby is right to rail against Australia’s ridiculous electricity prices, but echoing fossil fuel talking points against solar and other new technologies is self defeating.
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Australia solar market heads for 12GW by 2020

Tue, 2017-08-01 12:50
Australia's installed solar PV capacity set to double in three years, according to latest APVI data, as the big solar market gears back up.
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