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 federal government has announced a $1 billion Solar SunShot scheme in association with the NSW government to support the development of solar panel manufacturing in Australia. Solar SunShot will help Australia capture more of the global solar manufacturing supply chain through support, including production subsidies and grants. This will help ensure more solar panels…
A technoeconomic analysis of four stages in the solar photovoltaic supply chain in the new Silicon 2 Solar roadmap shows a credible case for Australia becoming a viable solar manufacturer, according to the report’s authors. Research on the new Silicon 2 Solar roadmap is led by a non for profit member body the Australian Photovoltaic…
Australia’s only manufacturer of solar PV panels, Adelaide’s Tindo Solar has announced ambitious plans for a solar PV gigafactory which could produce a third of Australia’s demand for solar panels. The plan, which would be dependent on support from a state government and backing from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency and the $15 billion National…
Packaging enterprise the Detmold Group has announced that it has begun powering “the first of its multiple facilities” with solar electricity, with a new 99-kilowatt, 243-panel system at its Regency Park facility beginning operations. The company said on Monday that the new solar array uses photovoltaic modules assembled by Tindo Solar, a fellow Adelaide business…
Australian owned Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners is to add a missing piece to the solar PV manufacturing puzzle announcing plans for an $8 billion polysilicon manufacturing facility in Townsville, Queensland according to media reports. The company has been allocated 200 hectares of land at the Lansdown Eco-Industrial Precinct which has acess to renewable energy supplies, promising…
