The Essential Services Commission in Victoria has released a new framework for time-varying feed-in tariffs, with rates varying from 29c/kWh during peak and 7.2c/kWh for off-peak periods.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation has reached a major investment milestone for large-scale solar development in Australia, with its latest two investments helping accelerate the delivery of more than 1GW in additional solar energy across 20 projects.
Australian solar energy software provider Solar Analytics has attracted $1.9 million in grant funding from the Federal Government’s Cooperative Research Centres Program to develop a solar monitoring platform to a smart home energy management system.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency will provide $6 million to Greatcell Solar to accelerate development of a new printable perovskite solar cell.