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Singapore investor invests in Australian solar farm

January 26, 2021 Anand Gupta

Singapore’s Keppel Renewable Energy is to buy a 45% stake in a solar farm in Harlin, 100km northwest of Brisbane. It will acquire the 45% stake for a nominal sum of A$540 ($410) and provide a loan of A$3.24 million ($2.45m) to the project to fund costs for developing the project, a statement said. Construction […]

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Tesla Powerwalls selected for first 100% solar and battery neighborhood in Australia

January 26, 2021 Anand Gupta

Economic Development Queensland (EDQ) recently announced a landmark deal with Tesla for the use of its Powerwall 2 batteries in a massive sustainability community project. The initiative aims to establish the first government-backed community in Australia that is 100% powered by solar energy and batteries. The project would involve 80 homes in the Brisbane suburb […]

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Australia Looks to Smart Inverters to Cram More PV Into World’s Top Solar Market

January 26, 2021 Anand Gupta

South Australia tests a flexible-exports scheme this year in a bid to add rooftop solar to the grid. The world’s top market for rooftop solar is looking for new ways to add distributed PV to its electricity system by fine-tuning its interplay with the power grid. This year, utilities in the Australian states South Australia […]

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Compressed Air Energy Storage Project In SA Dumped

January 26, 2021 Anand Gupta

An ARENA and South Australian Government backed project to turn an abandoned zinc mine not far from Adelaide into a 5MW/10MWh compressed air energy storage facility won’t be proceeding. Back in 2019, Canada’s Hydrostor won $9 million in grant funding commitments for Australia’s first Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (A-CAES) project at the Angas Zinc […]

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Daqo New Energy Provides Preliminary Estimates of Revenue and Net Profit for Its Subsidiary and Updates Guidance for 2020

January 26, 2021 Anand Gupta

SHANGHAI: Daqo New Energy Corp. (NYSE: DQ) (“Daqo New Energy”, the “Company” or “we”), a leading manufacturer of high-purity polysilicon for the global solar PV industry, announced that its subsidiary Xinjiang Daqo New Energy (“Xinjiang Daqo”) had provided estimates of its revenue and net profit in 2020 to the Shanghai Stock Exchange upon its […]

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Parents Pushing For Solar And Batteries Across All Australian Schools

January 26, 2021 Anand Gupta

Australian Parents for Climate Action (AP4CA) wants to see Federal funding for solar panels and batteries for every school and early childhood centre in Australia. AP4CA is a volunteer-run group of parents from around Australia advocating for a safe climate. In September last year, it kicked off an action lobbying the Federal Government to fund […]

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Budai egrets add solar farm to habitat

January 26, 2021 Anand Gupta

Egrets adapt better than most birds when a solar farm moves into their habitat, experts said, after images of egrets excreting feces on solar panels went viral online. On Tuesday, the Budai Salt Pan Wetlands (布袋五鹽田) posted images on Facebook of birds resting on solar panels erected in a detention basin, while close-ups showed that […]

Coalition to divert renewable energy funding away from wind and solar

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China’s CEIC, China Reform set up $1.55 bln new energy fund

January 25, 2021 Anand Gupta

Upon launch, the fund is expected to generate about 50 billion yuan worth of financing in projects using wind, solar and hydrogen and energy storage, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said. SINGAPORE: State-run China Energy Investment Corp (CEIC) and China Reform Holdings Corp have set up a 10.02 billion yuan ($1.55 billion) fund […]

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China doubles new renewable capacity in 2020, but continues to builds thermal plants

January 22, 2021 Anand Gupta

China’s 2020 figure is ahead of the 60.4 GW of new wind capacity added globally in 2019, according to data from the Global Wind Energy Council BEIJING | SHANGHAI : China more than doubled its construction of new wind and solar power plants in 2020 from a year earlier, government data showed, reflecting Beijing’s pledge […]

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New eco-friendly way to make ammonia could be boon for agriculture, hydrogen economy

January 22, 2021 Anand Gupta

Chemical engineers at UNSW Sydney have found a way to make ‘green’ ammonia from air, water and renewable electricity that does not require the high temperatures, high pressure and huge infrastructure currently needed to produce this essential compound. And the new production method — demonstrated in a laboratory-based proof of concept — also has the […]