Brisbane-based battery maker Redflow has called on miners to ditch diesel generation in favour of increasingly competitive renewable energy and large-scale energy storage, as part of a campaign targeting Australia’s […]
Tag: Chile
Unsubsidised large-scale solar beats coal, gas in Indian & Chilean auctions
Large-scale solar energy projects continue to make extraordinary gains against their fossil fuel rivals, with two stunning auction results in India and Chile over the past week both illustrating that […]
Solar projects win a quarter of Chilean renewables contracts at auction
Solar was a big winner at Chile’s latest energy auction, making up one-quarter of the all-renewable bids awarded 20-year contracts to supply 1,200GWh to the Chilean electricity market from 2017. […]
NEXTracker’s self-powered, horizontal axis solar tracking system
NEXTracker is a California-based developer of an innovative self-power, horizontal single-axis solar tracking system which has been deployed in solar farms across the globe. NEXTracker now has over 500MW of […]
South Australia’s two remaining coal plants will close, Alinta confirms
The likelihood of South Australia shifting to 100 per cent renewable energy received a huge boost this week, with the decision to close the state’s two remaining coal-fired plants. Alinta […]
177 GW of solar installed worldwide: IEA 2014 snapshot report
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has released their ‘2014 Snapshot of Global PV Markets’ report. The published figures state that, as of the end of 2014, there is now a […]
Solar Choice’s 2GW Bulli Creek Solar Farm receives planning approval from Toowoomba Regional Council
Originally published on RenewEconomy A staged plan to build what would be the largest solar PV plant in Australia – and possibly the largest yet proposed in the world – […]
Australia still lagging behind other nations in uptake of large-scale solar
Australia is still lagging behind the pace on large-scale solar, with the latest data revealing it has not moved from its position at number 31, behind the Dominican Republic, despite […]
Solar grid parity comes to Chile, other countries not far behind
Large-scale solar has reached grid parity with wholesale electricity prices in one South American country, and will soon do so in other countries around the world, a new European study […]
Australian concentrating solar demo plant sets solar heat record
A CSIRO-developed Australian solar thermal project has achieved what is being described as a game-changing breakthrough, demonstrating the technology’s potential to compete with modern coal-fired plants. The CSIRO Energy Centre […]
Abengoa feasibility study could pave the way for solar thermal with storage in Australia
Spanish renewable energy giant Abengoa has secured $450,000 in funds from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency to conduct a feasibility study into building a 20MW solar thermal tower plant with […]
