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Solar insights – Australia big in small solar
Australia beats Germany in small solar PV sytems; Germany sets solar production record; differences over solar multiplier; utilities getting solar windfall; module prices to fall sharply again this year; Australia a key market for major players; Big Solar campaign arrives in Canberra; and arise, the self consumer!5 -
AGL’s Fraser: We haven’t changed our stripes
The head of AGL Energy defends purchase of Loy Yang A, dismissing talk he is stuck between a brown rock and a green place. He says he remains a strong advocate of renewables and a carbon price, and comments on his rivals’ attacks on the RET, solar, and the lure of brown coal. -
Let it flow: Can venture capital break our cleantech bottleneck?
The manager of Australia’s largest renewable energy venture capital fund is poised to announce its first investments, hoping to break the massive hourglass effect between Australia’s R&D and commercialisation. But will the biggest VC opportunities lie in generation technologies, or those that reduce costs for the consumer market? -
Fear and loathing as utilities grasp impact of solar PV
The evidence is mounting that the rapid deployment of solar PV and other distributed generation poses major challenges to the business models of generators and network operators. Will the market and pricing regulators resist their attempts to find a new way of gold-plating their businesses? -
Solar PV – it’s cheaper than you think
It’s time to drop the idea that solar energy is expensive. A new report says Solar PV is already cost competitive with fossil fuels, including in Australia, but metrics such as ‘grid parity’ have only served to mislead and confuse customers, politicians, and even the energy industry itself.
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