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Sustainable Melbourne Fund launches Solar Finance program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Melbourne are specifically reaching out to smaller businesses to educate them on the benefits of using EUAs to install solar power units. "We've just gone live with the product and we're going through a process of setting up a partner network," said ...

KKR invests in Sundrop Farms expansion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... said. Sundrop Farms grows crops in glasshouses using proprietary technology. The "Sundrop System" uses concentrated solar power to create heat, electricity, and desalinated water for the agribusiness's operations. "We grow food where land is too arid ...

ARENA fund Laing O'Rourke redeployable solar hybrid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... Australian design and its potential to bring more renewable energy to off-grid Australia." One of the barriers to usage of solar power on short- and medium-term projects such as mining operations is the "permanent nature of fixed framed solar installations," ...

ARENA invests in Sunverge Energy via venture capital fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... ARENA said. Reducing peak load and improving grid reliability would address challenges associated with integrating solar power into Australia's grids, Frischknecht said. Southern Cross Renewable Energy Venture Capital Fund is a AU$200 million co-investment ...

Margaret River Winery installs SunPower solar system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Watershed Premium Wines, a Margaret-River based winery, has installed a 149-kilowatt solar power system that the winery says will offset electricity use by 30%. Photo Courtesy of Watershed Winery Watershed had a SunPower solar power system installed ...

AGL commences construction on Nyngan Solar Plant

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... expected to be fully operational by June 2015. It will deliver 103 megawatts of renewable power and will be the largest solar power station in Australia, with more than 1,350,000 solar photovoltaic (PV) modules expected to be installed on the 250 hectare ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases criteria for solar assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... criteria specifies the amount of non-solar fuel back-up, or hybridization allowed for projects such as concentrated solar power plants at 15%. The Climate Bonds Initiative said that criteria for manufacturers in the solar supply chain will follow in ...

Q&A with Meg McDonald, CEO Low Carbon Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... those interventions have been very changeable through time - witness the shift in feed-in tariff arrangements for solar power, the insulation program, the Green Building Fund, and other grant programs which are intermittent, and which have rounds which ...

AGL Energy, First Solar granted $130m for solar project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... photovoltaic manufacturer First Solar will receive an AU$129.7m federal government grant to help finance a 159 megawatt solar power project. Resources Minister Martin Ferguson The AU$450m project will be built in Broken Hill and Nyngan, New South Wales ...

LGS ESG sovereign debt strategy includes green bond tilt

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Local Government Super (LGS) has moved all of its nearly AU$170m government bond allocation to a strategy that explicitly incorporates environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis into the selection process, including a specific allocation of ...

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