As the world’s largest processor of macadamias, the Macadamia Processing Company has recently switched on a 600kW solar system, designed and installed by Todae Solar. The task of processing between 10-13,000 metric tonnes of macadamias annually is no mean feat and requires enormous amounts of electricity to ensure that the final product is of the highest quality.
JinkoSolar has taken the Intersolar Award 2019 in the Photovoltaics category for its Swan bifacial module with transparent backsheet from DuPont. The Intersolar Award is presented to companies that have made a substantial contribution to the success of the industry, honoring technological innovations and groundbreaking solutions using photovoltaic-related technologies.
The future of electricity is being reinvented in Western Australia, writes Jeremy Wray of CPS National, who is working with Horizon Power to replace 54km of transmission with stand-alone power systems. In an effort to stay ahead of the advancement of renewable energy, West Australian energy utility Horizon Power is disrupting itself rather than waiting to be disrupted by others.
Residential installers around Australia have been madly busy over the past nine years fitting solar PV systems to more than 2 million houses. Between 2010 and last year about 8.1GW of capacity was secured to household rooftops, and over that time the average system has more than tripled in size – from 1.97kW to 7.13kW.