The sites include Capalaba and North Lakes in greater Brisbane, along with the Gold Coast, Rockhampton, Toowoomba and Townsville. The Queensland government confirmed that 15 locations will be announced in the coming weeks. Mick de Brenni, Queensland’s minister for energy and clean economy jobs, emphasised that Queensland is “leading the way in rooftop solar penetration”,
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Navigation for News Categories An illustration of Far North Solar Farm’s consented 38-hectare solar farm in Marton, Rangitīkei. Photo: Supplied / Far North Solar Farm A solar power company getting government investment aims to produce 15 percent of the country’s daytime electricity. The $78 million deal between Crown-owned New Zealand Green Investment Finance (NZGIF) and
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Artist’s illustration of the Local Bubble with star formation occurring on the bubble’s surface. (Image credit: CfA, Leah Hustak (STScI)) The Local Bubble is a region of surprisingly low-density gas that surrounds our solar system and other nearby regions of our galaxy — and it has a violent history. Here’s how our solar system ended
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Harnessing renewable energy sources has become a global imperative in the face of an escalating energy crisis and the urgent need to combat climate change. Among the array of options, solar energy stands out as the frontrunnerexperts predict that it could become our primary energy source well before the end of the century. However, while
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Solar Americas Capital and Ambev announce the operational launch of a large-scale, behind-the-meter solar power plant in Brazil. The installation is located in Cachoeiras do Macacu, Rio de Janeiro, and has a peak power generation capacity of 5MW, with approximately 9000 solar panels installed adjacent to AMBEV’s factory. The behind-the-meter solution means that the solar
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This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A company developing an industrial-scale solar panel array on Badger Mountain in Eastern Washington has paused permitting activities on the project amid concerns about impacts to Indigenous cultural sites. The decision comes on the heels of an investigation
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In an exciting advancement featured in Materials Horizons, Dr. Edison Ang, Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education/Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, unveils a groundbreaking solution for both water purification and pollutant degradation. This novel approach is detailed in the study titled “Monolith floatable dual-function solar photothermal evaporator: efficient clean water regeneration synergizing with pollutant
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“We’re definitely moving from the initial phase of PPAs, which has been going on for five or ten years depending on how you count, where this was a procurement tool that was associated mainly with the 0.1% of global corporates, the biggest companies in the world [including] the very big tech companies and some enormous
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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads KeyState’s solar tax credit fund platform, dubbed SOLCAP, is now on track to raise over US$450 million in solar tax equity financing across the US. Image: KeyState Renewables. US investors Generate Capital and KeyState Renewables have closed their third joint fund,
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Latest Features , Interviews , Long Reads Features , Guest Blog , Long Reads Avantus will oversee the construction of the solar PV project, which is expected to begin operations in late 2025. Image: Avantus. US solar developer Avantus and Japanese conglomerate the Toyota Tsusho Corporation have started construction of their 159MWdc/125MWac Norton Solar project
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