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Federal rooftop solar rebate officially opens to systems sized between 100 kW and 1 MW, extending a roughly 20 per cent discount to farms, factories and all sorts of businesses in-between.
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Nuclear power’s quarter-century of stagnation has no end in sight, and has been overtaken by solar PV
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Supersized rooftop solar rebates go live in bid to tap into an 80 gigawatt goldmine
Federal rooftop solar rebate officially opens to systems sized between 100 kW and 1 MW, extending a roughly 20 per cent discount to farms, factories and all sorts of businesses in-between.
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