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8/6/15: CORENA patron, Monica Oliphant OA, was today recognised in the 2015 Queen\’s Birthday Honours list for distinguished service to the renewable energy sector as a research scientist, particularly through pioneering roles in solar photovoltaics and power generation, and to national and international organisations. Monica\’s details as they appear in the honours list are: International …
This week\’s solar PV installation at Camden Park, SA, brings the total amount installed by CORENA\’s Quick Win community solar projects so far to 35kW. Another 8kW has been added by recipient organisations in conjunction with these projects, giving an overall result of 43kW installed. Two of the projects have also included replacing lights with …
5/3/15, ABC News\”An Australian-first floating solar power plant is expected to be operational in South Australia by early April, with construction about to begin. The plant will float on a wastewater treatment facility in Jamestown in the state\’s mid north. Felicia Whiting of Infratech Industries said the plant was designed so that much of the …
The first WA project has just been queued for funding as CORENA\’s 5th Quick Win project. This will pay for a solar installation for the Nannup Community Resource Centre in a rural area 3 hours south of Perth. Currently all contributions to the Quick Win project fund are going towards Project 4 at Camden in …
14/1/2015 In response to requests from supporters, we now have CORENA promo items available to help spread the word about CORENA solar projects. In the past we\’ve avoided the consumerism of having \’merchandise\’, but we feel a few promo items can be a good promotion investment if used wisely. For example, supporters can give visibility …
Jan 12, 2015, graph from RenewEconomy article, http://reneweconomy.com.au/2015/day-rooftop-solar-met-one-third-south-australias-demand-66103 This graph is for a public holiday, but a similar evening peak would apply on business days too. Note how the electricity from Victorian brown coal generation balloons (the red part) as generation from SA\’s rooftop solar PV declines at dusk. This is the time slot when …
December 18, 2014 Today we reached the $16,000 funding target for solar panels for Project 3, the Beechworth Montessori School in northern Victoria, so now all Quick Win project contributions will be going towards Project 4 at the Camden Community Centre. The donated funds will be boosted by quarterly loan repayments from the first three …
With Australian electricity prices amongst the highest in the world, more and more households are going solar. The big power companies say the Renewable Energy Target is undermining their businesses and they want it wound back. The federal government agrees, so who is to blame for the high price of power? Never has it been …
By Giles Parkinson on 2 April 2014 In 2012, according to global investment bank HSBC, the global market for energy efficiency was around $US375 billion. That’s as much as was invested in fossil fuel electricity generation in that year, and 1.5 times the amount invested in renewable energy. HSBC negawattsPut another way, according to the …
01/02/2014 We are pleased to announce that our 2nd Quick Win Project will be energy efficiency measures and a solar PV installation for the Gawler Community House, in Gawler, SA. The first of CORENA\’s regional partners, Transition Gawler, has been instrumental in setting up this project and will take an active part in promoting this …