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GCL-SI named Tier 1 PV manufacturer by Bloomberg New Energy Finance
GCL-SIhas been named in the Tier 1 list of BNEF, ranking of PV module manufacturers. On the list, GCL-SI is ranked No. 2 based on its annual solar module capacity.
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Renewable energy certificates edge closer to penalty price
Renewable energy certificates edge closer to penalty price and the point of no new generation.
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Paris deal, rapid transition means deepening doldrums for energy incumbent
The great global race against time has very much begun now. The US and China ratify Paris deal, capital flow shift, China cancels nuclear plant and even conservative press hails transition to sun, wind and water within a generation.
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CCA report will sanction further delay and slow pace of action
CCA report on government's emissions targets ignores the carbon budget, is politically expedient, and brushes aside concern about current measures. Worst, it ignores the science.
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ARENA an endangered species: It’s time to speak out
Cutting funding from ARENA will kill renewable energy research, innovation and education in Australia. It's time to make a submission, it will only take 10 minutes.
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Germany’s BayWa enters Australian solar PV market through Solarmatrix buy
With its robust rooftop market, a diverse offgrid sector and a utility scale segment heading towards major expansion, the Australian solar PV landscape is attracting new players.
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Enphase says NSW solar tariff closure driving surge in battery storage demand
Enphase Energy says orders for its first battery storage offering have jumped to more than 70,000 units as households come off premium solar feed-in tariffs.
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Turnbull’s re-badged innovation fund makes first investment
As ARENA hangs in the balance, a $20m Seed Fund has been launched via Clean Energy Innovation Fund to back early-stage clean energy technology, R&D.
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The graph that shows the death of traditional energy utilities
Mojo Power says combination of solar and storage means that current energy utility business models cannot survive, because power stations will be "blown into a thousand fragments" and fuel will be effectively free.
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Know your NEM: Is there a way to get network tariffs right?
Australian network pricing policy is increasingly dysfunctional. At minimum, it's a barrier to innovation and progress. At its worst it means inefficient, high cost electricity. So can we fix it?
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Alinta mulling huge battery storage in Pilbara to displace gas generation
Alinta looking at installing one of world's largest battery storage arrays to displace cost of gas it uses for back-up in the Pilbara.
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Climate Change Authority’s gamble on political pragmatism
Years of controversy over carbon pricing has both major parties scared of any policy seen to raise electricity prices. The CCA seems to have taken this political situation as a starting point.
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US city of Boulder commits to going 100 per cent renewable
Boulder, Colorado the latest in a series of cities making the pledge to go totally green. There are now 17 in total.
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Alinta looks to combine solar and geothermal for new housing estates
Alinta Energy says distributed geothermal could provide heating and cooling needs for new housing estates, and combined with solar need not be connected to grid.
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Why battery storage doesn’t pay without rooftop solar
There’s plenty of early adopters out there who will buy battery storage regardless of the return on investment, because early adopters like the technology and the independence it offers.
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Electric vehicle owners to get discounted power, solar FiT boost in new retail offer
Online energy retailer Click Energy has launched an electricity plan targeting electric vehicle owners, offering lower electricity rates or higher solar feed-in tariff.
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Tamed CCA gives Coalition breathing space, but no path to Paris targets
A reconstituted Climate Change Authority has delivered its long-awaited, long-delayed report on Australia's climate policy options. And it looks remarkably like something that the Coalition could have written itself, and is too little, too late.
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Climate Change Authority cops out – just when we need it most
Gutted by Malclm Turnbull, its latest report a cop out, the Climate Change Authority has become yet another impediment to climate action in Australia.
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Adani should bow out gracefully from Carmichael coal mine
Defeat of remaining legal challenge to Carmichael coal mine means it is finally time for Adani to put its money where its mouth has been.
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Eight energy companies win ACT battery storage auction
ACT names 8 winners of $2m funding to roll-out 2MW solar-integrated battery storage across 600+ homes and businesses.
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