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Forum: Installing rooftop solar panels may not result in much energy savings

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

I have been following the Straits Times reports on climate change and I have read about the heat island effect that highly urban cities such as Singapore experience. Singapore will be getting hotter and hotter in the future and it is now trendy to install rooftop solar panels in private landed estates (Saving the environment […]

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Japan should try California-style solar panel mandate: Koizumi

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

Environment minister says renewables take priority after Suga announces new climate target. TOKYO : Japan should consider requiring solar panels on homes and office buildings as part of its plans to achieve its new, higher target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi told Nikkei on Friday. Koizumi, who argues that broader use […]

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Largest Solar Farm at an Australian University

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

Deakin University’s commitment to be carbon neutral by 2025 received a significant boost with the official opening of the $23 million Deakin Renewable Energy Microgrid at the Geelong Waurn Ponds campus. Deakin Vice-Chancellor Professor Iain Martin was joined by Dr Alan Finkel AO, Special Adviser to the Federal Government on Low Emissions Technology, to turn […]

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Australian airports could generate enough solar energy to power a regional city

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

A new study has found Australia’s government-owned airports could produce enough electricity to power 136,000 homes, if they had large-scale rooftop solar systems installed. Researchers at RMIT University compared electricity generated by residential solar panels in a regional city to the potential green energy production of 21 leased federal airports. They found if large-scale solar […]

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Hartford-based Verogy looking to pair solar and sheep at farms across the state

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

The solar energy company Verogy Inc. is looking to create solar farms in various parts of Connecticut, and for at least some of the projects envisions contracting with a farmer to manage sheep grazing on the grass beneath the massive panels. Solar panels are starting to cover hilltop land that once was Minor’s Farm in […]

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Victoria puts out call for virtual power plants with rooftop solar and batteries

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

The Victoria Labor government is launching a new pilot program that will create “virtual power plants” that will bundle together the excess energy from the state’s growing amount of rooftop solar installations and household battery storage units. Energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio said the state is seeking expressions of interest in the program from companies with […]

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‘Insanely cheap energy’: how solar power continues to shock the world

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

Australian smarts and Chinese industrial might made solar power the cheapest power humanity has seen – and no one saw it coming. In the year 2000, the International Energy Agency (IEA) made a prediction that would come back to haunt it: by 2020, the world would have installed a grand total of 18 gigawatts of […]

Oman to host world’s first solar-powered Direct Air Capture project

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Dynamic Solar Exports Are The Future – And A Good Thing

April 27, 2021 Anand Gupta

SolarQuotes founder Finn Peacock weighs in on dynamic (aka flexible) solar exports, which he believes are the future for home solar power in Australia – and around the world. Hello from South Australia, where South Australia Power Networks, the local electricity network, have just announced that they’re going to start trials of something called dynamic […]

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Japan to tackle red tape to boost renewable energy

April 24, 2021 Anand Gupta

Actions to reduce bureaucracy are set to accelerate after Japan on Thursday nearly doubled its 2030 target for cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as world leaders met for a climate summit hosted by U.S. President Joe Biden. TOKYO : Japan plans to cut approval times for wind projects, open up abandoned farmland, boost grid capacity […]

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Russia’s efforts on moving to green energy

April 23, 2021 Anand Gupta

Russia set a target on the development of renewable energy sources in 2009, with the aim to grow their share of total power production to 4.5 per cent by 2024. MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin has said he wants Russia’s total net greenhouse gas emissions to be less than the European Union’s over the next 30 […]