CORENA - Citizens' Own Renewable Energy Network Australia
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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 …
With just 5 hours left to go on their Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign to fund their second community solar project, RE-volv was still a few thousand short, but they made it. RE-volv are a California group who rely on voluntary contributions from the public to fund solar installations for community organisations. Their mechanism is a bit …
From RenewEconomy, on January 15, by Giles Parkinson \”The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has finally come to an agreement with the privately-owned Alinta to co-fund a feasibility study into a solar thermal power station to augment or replace the existing coal fired generators in the South Australian township of Port Augusta. ARENA announced on Wednesday …
