The federal government is moving to harmonise multiple digital standards and platforms that are holding consumers back from making the most of rooftop solar PV systems, home batteries and grid-connected electric vehicles. Building a common digital platform for solar, batteries and other consumer energy resources to work together could unlock up to $6 billion in…
Economists should stop insisting that local manufacturers compete in a ‘free market’ because world markets are far from free, argues Julie Harrison, Chief Executive Officer of Harrison Manufacturing. There’s a line in the movie Apocalypse Now in which the narrator ponders that, ‘charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out speeding…
The Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen believes the government’s future made in Australia policies could ultimately see 20 percent of Australia’s solar PV panel needs satisfied by domestic production. Bowen was speaking on ABC Adelaide where visited Australia’s only solar panel manufacturer, Tindo Solar which has a one percent market share today.…
Are we actually asking the question in our editorial series – Towards 3% R&D – Turbocharging Australia’s Innovation Effort. Here Allen Roberts looks behind the issue at the Australian way of getting things done, and whether that, itself, needs reform. As we seek to move towards 3% of GDP as a measure of the R&D…
Building-integrated photovoltaics company ClearVue Technologies has secured its inaugural contract in Australia for its energy efficient, electricity generating commercial windows. The Perth company said it had received the order from construction company Kapitol Group for a new commercial building project for the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, and Employees Union (CFMEU) in Melbourne. The CFMEU will incorporate…
Consultation opened on Tuesday morning on the design of the federal government’s Solar Sunshot program, announced late last month. Sunshot is budgeted at $1 billion. It was announced on March 28 by prime minister Anthony Albanese during a visit to NSW Hunter Valley, which has a strong heritage in coal mining, pledging to “invest in…
By Peter Roberts The federal government has accelerated the roll out of renewable power generation and storage with the country’s biggest ever tender. But despite Canberra’s plans for a Future Made in Australia, there was no mention of a role for local industry in the announcement made this morning. The Federal and NSW climate change…
Australia’s only manufacturer of solar panels Tindo Solar has celebrated five years of exporting to Vietnam with another shipment delivered in the first quarter of 2024. Tindo CEO Richard Petterson announced the milestone in an address at the Australia-Vietnam Green Economy Summit, which is led by Asialink and Climateworks Centre and supported by the federal…
The Queensland government has announced $2.5 million dedicated to a new solar panel recycling pilot program, which it says is the first in the nation, and comes alongside $3 million dedicated to renewable industry association grants. In a statement on Friday, the state government said that “thousands of solar panels” from the state’s homes, businesses…
Casella Family Brands, the maker of Yellow Tail and Peter Lehmann wines, has switched on the largest solar PV facility in the Australian wine industry at its facility at Yenda, NSW. CEO of Casella Family Brands John Casella said the facility was a major step forward for the industry and his business. Casella said: “We’re…