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15 hours ago | 
pv-magazine.com | David Carroll
From pv magazine AustraliaGoodWe BIPV, a unit of Chinese solar technology manufacturer GoodWe, said its Vela residential solar carport, which features the company’s Polaris building-integrated PV (BIPV) panels, has emerged as an alternative to rooftop and ground-mounted solar systems in Australia and New Zealand.
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23 hours ago | 
pv-magazine-australia.com | David Carroll
GoodWe BIPV, a unit of Chinese solar technology manufacturer GoodWe, said its Vela residential solar carport, which features the company’s Polaris building-integrated PV (BIPV) panels, has emerged as an alternative to rooftop and ground-mounted solar systems in Australia and New Zealand.
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1 day ago | 
pv-magazine.com | David Carroll
From pv magazine AustraliaSpanish renewable energy developer Acciona Energia said it has completed construction of the 380 MW Aldoga Solar Farm near the industrial city of Gladstone, Queensland, just 12 months after works officially commenced.
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1 day ago | 
pv-magazine-australia.com | David Carroll
Athena Energy, an offshoot of Singapore-based developer Metis Energy, announced major changes have been made to the size and scope of the proposed Bendemeer Solar Farm project to address raised during the exhibition of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). The project, being developed near the township of Bendemeer in the heart of the New England Renewable Energy Zone (REZ), is to include a 200 MW solar farm and 150 MW / 300 MWh battery energy storage system.
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1 day ago | 
pv-magazine-australia.com | David Carroll
Chinese automation company Leapting has announced that its Automatic Navigation Solar Module Mounting Robot has completed its inaugural commercial project in Australia, successfully installing nearly 10,000 PV panels at the 350 MW Culcairn Solar Farm project being developed by Neoen in the New South Wales (NSW) Riverina region.
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2 days ago | 
pv-magazine-australia.com | David Carroll
Plans to develop a grid-scale solar farm and battery energy storage project in Tasmania’s Central Highlands have joined the queue for assessment under the federal government’s Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act. The Weasel solar and battery project proposes to build a 250 MW solar farm alongside a battery energy storage system of up to 144 MW with four hours of storage capacity on a 435-hectare site about nine kilometres north of Bothwell in central Tasmania.
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2 days ago | 
pv-magazine-australia.com | David Carroll
Australian solar installation business EPC Solar has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to provide solar products to a string of resorts in Fiji, helping to reduce their reliance on diesel generators. Another MoU, with Canberra-based coffee manufacturer ONA coffee, will see EPC Solar provide a solar and battery energy storage system for its new coffee factory being developed in Fiji.
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1 week ago | 
pv-magazine.com | David Carroll
From pv magazine AustraliaFortescue has announced that construction is now underway on a 190 MW solar farm being built near its Cloudbreak mine site in Western Australia’s Pilbara as the company works to stop burning fossil fuels across its Australian iron ore operations by the decade’s end. Fortescue is proposing to reach “real zero” at its mining operations which means burning no diesel or gas by 2030.
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1 week ago | 
pv-magazine-australia.com | David Carroll
Eku Energy, jointly owned by Macquarie Group and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, announced it has purchased seven planned battery energy storage projects with a combined capacity of 1 GW / 2 GWh from United Kingdom-headquartered developer Bluestone Energy. The projects include a 98 MW / 196 MWh battery energy storage system near Surrey in southeast England, a 98 MW / 196 MWh plant near Dorset in the country’s southwest, and 240 MW projects in both East Sussex and Kent.
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1 week ago | 
ess-news.com | Tristan Rayner |Marija Maisch |Carrie Hampel |David Carroll
Zurich-based BESS owner-operator BW ESS has another new partnership in Germany, joining Berlin-based energy storage developer Zelos Energy Developments to enact plans to co-develop up to 1.5 GW of projects in the north and east of Germany. The targets will be within the region operated by 50 Hertz, a transmission system operator (TSO) that operates 220 kV and 380 kV networks in the north and east of the country.
