Renewable Energy News

Australia’s first commercial diesel displacement PV solar power station has commenced operation at a remote Rio Tinto mine in Australia.

The 1.7 megawatt Weipa Solar Plant will generate electricity for Rio Tinto’s Weipa bauxite mine, processing operations and township; which are located on Queensland’s Western Cape York Peninsula.

The Clean Energy Council’s Approved Solar Retailer scheme was last week granted reauthorisation by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for a further five years.

In January 2014 we reported on Harvard University’s development of a metal-free, rechargeable flow battery with applications in large-scale renewable energy storage.

Building on that earlier work, members of the same team have demonstrated an improved flow battery system that is 50 per cent more efficient than its predecessor and is composed entirely of Earth-abundant, non-toxic, non-corrosive and non-flammable materials.

In light of the proposed tariffs by Australian utility networks, many people are aghast at the proposals. However, there may be a people’s champion, the Australian Photovoltaic Institute, otherwise called APVI.

Recently, they had quite a lot to say about the proposals made by utilities. These centred on tariff suggestions like time-of-use tariffs, where pricing would be higher during given times.

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