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Global solar capacity surpassed 500GW in 2018
Booming national markets – including Australia’s – helped deliver nearly 100GW of new PV installations in 2018, and took the global total past the 500GW mark.
Joshua S Hill

Apr 18, 2019

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Queensland enacts new solar rules, as stunned industry warns of investment standstill
Queensland confirms solar panel installation on projects over 100kW will be restricted to licensed electricians. Industry says new rules are “daft”, and potentially devastating.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 10, 2019

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China lays out plans for subsidy-free wind and solar 
China has laid out plans to drive the development of subsidy-free wind and solar projects across the country in an effort to push the technologies to grid parity.
Joshua S Hill

Jan 18, 2019

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US on verge of 139GW solar boom
New research reveals the United States sits on the precipice of what could be a monumental solar boom set to play out over the next five years.
Joshua S Hill

Jan 14, 2019

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Booming solar market triples in 2018, set to deliver “Hazelwood + Liddell” by 2020
Solar’s record-breaking 2018 is expected to continue into 2019, with forecasts of another 3GW-plus to be added in utility-scale solar alone, putting solar PV on track to deliver 10% of NEM demand by 2020.
Sophie Vorrath

Jan 14, 2019

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RCR administrators move to close down solar business
Administrators of RCR Tomlinson move to extract the contracting and engineering giant from the solar business that appears to have torpedoed the company’s finances.
Giles Parkinson

Dec 4, 2018

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Australia’s biggest solar farm at Coleambally sets new production records
Updated: Neoen’s 150MW Coleambally solar farm in NSW is setting new records – not just in size and output, but also speed of installation and connection.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 23, 2018

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NSW 132MW Nevertire solar farm begins construction
Elliott Green Power says 132MW Nevertire Solar Farm, in NSW north-west, in early stages of construction.
Sophie Vorrath

Jul 30, 2018

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Australia has 35GW of solar farms in development pipeline
After a record 2017, there is now more than 1900MW of solar PV farms under construction across Australia, and 35GW in various stages of development.
Sophie Vorrath

Jul 16, 2018

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Two new big solar farms to begin construction in NSW “in coming weeks”
Developers confirm works set to begin on first of two new solar farms in NSW, totalling more than 460MW of large-scale PV capacity.
Sophie Vorrath

Jul 12, 2018

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Queensland now matches NSW with nine solar farms connected to grid
Another 110MW solar farm joins the grid in Queensland, taking that state’s total to nine, and matching NSW and the ACT.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 4, 2018

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Solar

Australia solar costs hit “extraordinary” new lows – $50s/MWh
ARENA says Australia utility-scale solar prices has plunged to “somewhere in the $50s” today, while BNEF says China module surplus could lower prices further in Australia by end of the year.
Sophie Vorrath & Giles Parkinson

Jun 27, 2018

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