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Batteries, batteries, and more batteries: Alice Springs future grid plan gets ARENA boost
A new big battery, home battery incentives, and a battery-based VPP – all put on fast-track for Alice Springs with $2.1m funding boost from ARENA this week.
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Vector/LG Chem win 5MW battery storage tender for Alice Springs
Vector wins tender with LG Chem battery storage, which allow significant increase in solar capacity in Alice Springs and a payback in 4 years.
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Jun 22, 2017
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Northern Territory’s $2 billion scare campaign against solar
Northern Territory’s conservative government and its state-owned power generator go to extraordinary lengths to demonise solar, claiming it will cost up to $2 billion to power Alice Springs with “solar only.” The numbers just don’t make sense.
Giles Parkinson
Jun 27, 2016
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Alice Springs: Solar city at centre of a fossil fuel controversy
Alice Springs has highest solar penetration in Australia, but how much solar can it bear? According to the conservative Northern Territory government, not a panel more. And it says renewable energy causes cables to overload, heat up, “melt, collide and fail.” So, it is investing in a new gas plant.
Giles Parkinson
Apr 21, 2016
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Uterne 4.1MW solar expansion complete, ready to power Alice Springs grid
Australia’s largest solar PV farm with sun tracking technology, the 4.1MW Uterne project, is complete, giving Alice Springs one of highest solar penetration levels in country.
Sophie Vorrath
Aug 20, 2015
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Alice Springs Airport nears 100% renewables with new solar array
Alice Springs Airport, which already generates 50% of its power from solar, will boost this to around 90% with the addition of a 1000-panel array.
Sophie Vorrath
Aug 14, 2015
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Alice Springs could add 10MW of solar to bring penetration to 26%
ARENA-backed study shows how 10MW of extra solar power can be added to a relatively small grid without adversely affecting supply stability.
Sophie Vorrath
Mar 10, 2015
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