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Energy Efficient Communities Program – High Energy Using Business Grants
Energy Efficient Communities Program – High Energy Using Business Grants The Australian Government has launched the Energy Efficient Communities Program – High Energy Using Business Grants to help facilitate energy efficient practices for businesses. This provides...
Victoria introduces bill to lock 50% renewables target into law
Victoria’s Labor government has made good on its election promise to boost the state’s renewable energy target to 50 per cent by 2030, with the introduction of a bill into parliament on Tuesday that will lock the target into law. The Renewable Energy (Jobs and...
Australian Government’s Instant Asset Write-Off (IAWO) Threshold Increase
In response to COVID-19, the Australian Government has increased the instant asset write-off (IAWO) threshold from $30,000 to $150,000 and expanding access to include all businesses with aggregated annual turnover of less than $500 million until 30 June 2020. It will...
Victorian Solar Homes Package
The restructured Solar Homes Package by the Victorian State Government will be reopened on July 1st, 2019. Several changes to the existing solar PV rebate will be implemented on this date, as well as the offering of new rebates and schemes. There will be a limit of...
South Australia’s stunning aim to be “net” 100 per cent renewables by 2030
The South Australia Liberal government says it expects the state will be “net” 100 per cent renewables by 2030, heralding the most dramatic shift towards wind and solar and storage technologies of any major grid in the world. The prediction was made by South Australia...
Thousands of Victorian Homes Save Millions on Solar
Nearly 7,000 Victorian households have installed solar panels since the Andrews Labor Government's Solar Homes package was launched in August last year, amounting to more than $3.4 million in rebates. State energy minister Lily D'Ambrosio said on Friday that around...
On-farm energy grants
Agriculture Victoria has rolled out the first and second actions in the Victorian Government's $30 million Agriculture Energy Investment Plan: free on-farm energy assessments and on-farm energy grants. What’s an on-farm energy tier 1 grant? These provide support to...
Solar SRES Stays Intact
"After weeks of behind the scenes lobbying by the CEC, common sense has prevailed and the Coalition party room has ignored the ill-considered and unjustified proposal to abolish or change the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES). This is a win for rooftop solar....
NEG Modelling Disbelief
Outrage has erupted in political and energy market circles over the failure of the federal government to produce any detailed modelling for the controversial National Energy Guarantee. There has been widespread disbelief about the claims of the Energy Security Board...