Renewable Energy News

Subsidies for onshore wind power were cut by the UK government in 2015. Then the main reasons given were that it was too expensive and that the public didn’t support it. Amber Rudd MP, then head of what was the Department of Energy and Climate Change, said in a statement to parliament: “We are reaching the limits of what is affordable and what the public is prepared to accept.”

The potential rooftop solar energy output of Australia is greater than the amount of electricity we consume through the national grid each year. The revelation comes in a new report released this week from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Property Council of Australia.

Nineteen solar powered schools in the Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta have plugged in to a program that aims to reduce carbon emissions of 2,442 tonnes each year across the schools. The schools in Sydney’s west are learning a lesson about the environment as they plug into renewable solar power.

Sydney’s iconic Opera House has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) to access sustainable electricity from large-scale wind and solar farms in NSW. According to The Fifth Estate, the power-hungry building has a $2.4 million spend on electricity annually. The new PPA means that more than $16 million will be invested in wind and solar power over the next seven years.

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