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Woolworths’ solar power plan continues to make headlines after it raised $400 million in the first green bond issued by a major Australian retail chain last month. Moree in northern New South Wales is the latest Woolworths supermarket to go solar. The Moree rooftop solar array of 99.96 kW comprises 357 solar panels.
The famous inventor Edwin Land said, “It’s not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.” He seemed to be telling us that solutions lie just beyond our old habits of thinking.
Several countries – including France, Norway and the UK – have plans to phase out cars powered by fossil fuel before 2050, to reduce air pollution and fight climate change. The idea is to replace all conventional vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs). But this is unlikely to help the environment, as long as EVs are charged using electricity generated from the same old dirty fossil fuels.
The Northern Territory is a great holiday destination, with its palaeoproterozoic complex and grinning reptile life, but it’s a rough place to install solar. EcoGeneration fired off a few questions to Solar SETuP senior project manager Andrew Gray about working in the outback and the extra rigour that needs to be designed into systems that will be largely left to themselves to manage harsh conditions.
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