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Solar panel recycling: Turning ticking time bombs into possibilities
Australia has certainly shown its cravings for solar energy. Now, with the average lifespan of a solar panel being around 20 years, lots of installations from the early 2000's are readied to get to end-of-life. Will they wind up in landfill or be reused? The price of recycling is greater than landfill, as well as the worth of recovered materials is smaller sized than the original, so there's minimal interest in recycling. However offered the existence of heavy metals, such as lead as well as tin, if waste is managed improperly, we're on track for one more recycling situation. A prospective time bomb could emerge as a possibility, nonetheless, if the international EV market revealed a passion in the recuperated solar products.
May 27, 2020 // Opinions, Australia, Oceania, WORLD, GREENMAT, Mahdokht Shaibani
SmartestEnergy Secures Half of Neoen’s NSW Solar Output
SmartestEnergy partners with Neoen for a landmark four-year power purchase agreement, energizing a sustainable future with Culcairn Solar Farm’s 350-MW output in New South Wales.
Sep 13, 2024 // Plants, neoen, PV Power Plant, SMARTESTENERGY
Construction begins on mining giant BHP's initial off-grid solar-storage project
Construction has started on BHP's "first off-grid large-scale renewable resource project", completing 38 MW of solar energy and a 10.1 MW/5.4 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS), at 2 nickel mines in Western Australia which supply Tesla for usage in electrical lorry (EV) batteries.
Feb 4, 2022 // Plants, Australia, solar-plus-storage, Oceania, power purchase agreement, solar-storage project, bhp, Jessica Farrell, diesel, emissions reduction, gold mine
Brookfield's Neoen Acquisition Conditional on Asset Divestment
ACCC greenlights Brookfield's $6.63B Neoen acquisition but mandates asset sale to ensure healthy competition in Australia's renewable energy sector.
Oct 31, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, neoen, Brookfield, ACCC
Neoen Sells Victoria Assets for Brookfield Takeover Approval
Neoen SA's strategic AUD 950 million sale to HMC Capital paves the way for Brookfield's major acquisition, enhancing the renewable energy landscape in Victoria.
Dec 5, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, Victoria, Brookfield, Neoen SA
Australia's Next Energy Leap: Hysata Giga-Scale Hydrogen Electrolysers
Australian start-up Hysata opens "giga-scale" production plant for world's most efficient electrolyser technology. 95% efficiency rate with 1GW of production annually and major investors, government funding and 9.4GW of orders. Helping the world reach goal of trillion-dollar investment in electrolysers for hard to abate industries.
Aug 14, 2023 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Australia, Oceania, hysata
SNEC 2021: Seraphim eyes growth in Southeast Asia, Australia and Europe
Module manufacturer Seraphim is aiming to improve a string of recent supply deals to further rise shipments to markets accross Southeast Asia, Australia as well as Europe.
Jun 7, 2021 // Manufacturing News, seraphim, Polaris Li, seraphim solar, module supply, SNEC 2021
Enphase Energy Partners With Excel to Deliver Solar Projects in Australia
Enphase Energy Inc, a worldwide power technology company and a leading distributor of solar microinverters, has actually introduced that Excel Power, a leading industrial and domestic solar firm with headquarters in Toowoomba, Australia, is leveraging the safety and security, dependability, as well as convenience of Enphase microinverters to construct an expanding base of business solar consumers.
Jun 16, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Enphase Energy, Oceania, Enphase Excel Solar Australia, Excel Power, microinverter
Canberra project REVS up Australia's vehicle-to-grid readiness
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency is putting US$ 1.66 million into a vehicle-to-grid test to show how electrical automobiles can provide grid supplementary services. The REVS research study and also market consortium wishes to show how EVs can create income for fleet owners.
Jul 8, 2020 // Storage, Transport, Solar to Fuel, Australia, Oceania, ARENA, Darren Miller
Australian solar gives least expensive energy, sustains greatest frequency ancillary solutions payments
New research from Cornwall Insight reveals that grid-scale solar farms are paying 10% to 20% of the expense of offering regularity supplementary services to Australia's National Electricity Market, regardless of currently creating around 3% of energy in the system.
Aug 25, 2020 // Market Research, Australia, Cornwall Insight, Oceania, Ben Cerini
City of Sydney flicks the button to 100% environment-friendly power
The city of Sydney is currently running completely on renewable resource produced from wind and solar ranches in the Australian state of New South Wales.
Jul 2, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Sydney, Oceania, Clover Moore, Matthew van der Linden, Bob Hayward
AGL exits most of Tilt Renewables stake in $490m selldown
Australia’s AGL will divest nearly all its 20% Tilt Renewables holding for about USD 490 million to a shareholder group led by QIC and the Future Fund.
Nov 10, 2025 // Markets & Finance News, AGL, qic, Tilt Renewables, Future Fund, asset rotation
Photon Energy verifies 2022 projection after record Q3 outcomes
Amsterdam-based solar energy producer Photon Energy NV (WSE: PEN) on Thursday claimed it booked a third-quarter net profit of EUR 6 million (USD 6m) after losing EUR 1.4 million a year back, thanks to the switching to a vendor approach.
Nov 10, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, photon energy
European Energy bags 3.6 GW Oz solar-hydrogen project
Developer says purchase will certainly speed up the scheme that covers 6000 hectares in the Gladstone region
Dec 16, 2022 // Plants, Australia, Oceania, european energy
Gentari breaks ground on Maryvale solar-plus-storage project in regional NSW
Gentari has begun building the 243-MWp Maryvale solar farm with a 172-MW/409-MWh LFP battery in NSW under the state’s Roadmap, targeting commercial operations in Q2 2027.
Aug 14, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, Oceania, PV Power Plant, Gentari











