Eco Friendly & Sustainable Living
rural, Tag
- Power grab: Authorities look to control household solar systems to stabilise the grid Sun, 8 Dec 19, 6:21amThe body that runs WA's main electricity market wants the ability to remotely dump excess solar power from households — cutting the bill rebates people currently receive — to help avoid rolling power cuts.
- There's a way to stop solar power overwhelming the grid — but it comes at a cost Sun, 8 Dec 19, 6:21amThe body that runs WA's main electricity market wants the ability to remotely dump excess solar power from households — cutting the bill rebates people currently receive — to help avoid rolling power cuts.
- Work starts on NT's largest solar farm in race to 50pc renewables by 2030 Thu, 18 Jul 19, 9:03amOne of the world's major oil and gas companies, Eni, starts building the Northern Territory's largest solar farm — boosting the NT's renewable energy use by up to 4 per cent.
- After switching to solar, this date farm is reaping the benefits Wed, 29 May 19, 7:08amThis NT farm picked twice as many dates as their previous season, and they're putting much of it down to running their irrigation system on solar power.
- Tamara dates in box Wed, 29 May 19, 7:08am
- Date trees at Tamara Cooperative Wed, 29 May 19, 7:08am
- Kim Mackay at Desert Fruit Company Wed, 29 May 19, 7:08am
- Protecting prime agricultural land Thu, 23 May 19, 6:36am
- Food or energy, how should prime agricultural land be used? Thu, 23 May 19, 6:36am
- Food or energy? The battle for Australia's prime agricultural land Thu, 23 May 19, 6:36amFour foreign-owned energy companies are racing to get their large-scale solar projects off the ground on farmland in the NSW Southern Riverina.
- "Farms for food not power" Thu, 23 May 19, 6:36am
- Site of proposed Culcairn Solar Farm Thu, 23 May 19, 6:36am
- Tomatoes using sunlight and seawater: Futuristic agribusiness Sundrop Farms' sells Wed, 15 May 19, 6:16amA world-leading agriculture business that uses sunlight and seawater to grow tomatoes has been sold but the final price is a closely-guarded secret.
- North East Victoria's first community owned solar system is switched on Sun, 14 Apr 19, 4:44pm