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Solar farms reduce water stress, improve soils and plant growth, new study finds
In what should be good news for Australia, new research finds solar panels in paddocks may alleviate water stress, improve soil moisture levels, and increase plant growth by around 20 per cent or more.
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Solar farms can play a significant role in restoring insect habitats that could mitigate ongoing conflicts over farming land use change.
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Proposed solar farms could meet the RET single-handed
That’s great news for the Australian solar industry, but points to the RET being dramatically oversubscribed. Which raises a few questions…
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Australian solar database – 161 projects, and 19GW of capacity
New database launched by RenewEconomy and Sunwiz shows 161 large scale solar projects completed or in the pipeline, representing some 19GW of potential capacity.
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Two major new solar farms in SE Queensland going ahead
ESCO Pacific and Elliott Advisers (UK) Ltd. (“Elliott”) are pleased to announce the successful financial close of the 98MW Susan River Solar Farm and 75MW Childers Solar Farm.
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CWP Asset Management to provide services to two new Wirsol Energy solar farms in Australia
The 110MW Wemen Solar Farm in Victoria and the 89MW Clermont Solar Farm in Queensland reached financial close yesterday, and will commence construction in January 2018.
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Australia’s big energy switch: from coal and gas to wind and solar
Australia’s electricity mix to shift rapidly from coal and gas to wind and solar, predicts Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Households play a critical role, but the key to their scenario may be the success of the current renewable energy target.
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WA government says no to new renewable energy
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