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Second renewable energy PPA in Singapore bolsters sustainability agendas for businesses and the nation

COMPANY NEWS: OpenSolar, a software company focused on empowering solar installers with an accurate and cost-free solar design and sales platform, and Solar Outlet, Australia's largest online distributor for solar panels, inverters, batteries and complete kits, have announced a partnership.

GUEST OPINION: Humanity has never faced a common threat as consequential as climate change.

GUEST OPINION: As solar energy and storage becomes the cheapest and most resilient source of energy around the world, millions of businesses are gearing up to participate in the transition away from fossil fuels.

Arena's latest $40 million R&D funding round is intended to support projects that align with the agency's Solar 30 30 30 target of 30% module efficiency and 30 cents per installed watt at utility scale by 2030.

Volunteer group Australian Parents for Climate Action has urged the NSW Government to reject Snowy Hydro’s proposal to build a $600 million gas power plant in Kurri Kurri; and instead asks the NSW Government to support the manufacturing of solar panels in the Hunter Valley.

Energy provider AGL AGL has entered into agreements to acquire two of Australia’s largest commercial solar businesses - Epho and Solgen Energy Group - from private equity firm Anchorage Capital Partners.

CQUniversity campuses across Queensland will source 50% of their energy from renewable solar under a deal signed by the university with Columboola Solar Farm which is being built between the towns of Chinchilla and Miles.

The idea of using semi-transparent solar cells in windows has been around for some time, but Australian researchers may have brought it close to reality.

Two researchers at the Australian National University have developed a new kind of solar cell that has a better efficiency record in converting sunlight into energy.

The Australian Hydrogen Council has warned that Australia is at risk of “missing the boat” on the development of hydrogen as part of an emissions reduction strategy as the country moves towards a clean energy industry.

Australian energy storage company Redflow has secured an order to immediately supply 27 of its ZBM2 zinc-bromine flow batteries for a Tasmanian farm owned by Simon Hackett – Redflow's founder and largest single shareholder.

Construction of the first large dispatchable solar generator in Australia’s national electricity market will start in early 2019 after it secured its generator performance standard this week.

The Coalition Government's approach to the R&D Tax Incentive in last night's Federal Budget mirrors its approach to every other sector or section of society: take from the poor, give to the rich.

Telstra has secured a long-term power purchase agreement with renewable energy company RES Australia to develop a new solar farm in Queensland.

Brisbane-based solar energy specialist Redback Technologies has launched its second generation smart hybrid inverter and a new family of grid tied inverters.

Australian tech start-up Matter unveils ‘Hana,’ billed as ‘the world’s first online platform for facilitating the move to shared-solar in rental properties.’

Origin Energy has secured a deal to be the first supplier of the Tesla Powerwall battery storage system in Australia.

Redback Technologies is launching their Smart Hybrid System that enables solar energy consumers to better manage and store solar energy, to save it for personal use, or sell it back to grid.

Digital aerial imagery provider nearmap is working on ways of increasing its use of the elevation data it extracts from photos.