Daily update: Solar costs heading to 4c/kWh, rooftop solar seen “unbeatable”
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Solar costs heading to 4c/kWh, rooftop solar seen “unbeatable”; Stored electricity heads to $0.05/kWh; Australia’s unsustainable size 13 footprint; New-build houses in WA suburb must install solar, wind; How solar “socket” parity took the world by surprise; Solar best option for energy poor says IEA; Human hands all over Australia’s hottest year; New housing in Cali to be EV capable; Why local energy ownership matters; NSW fertiliser firm installs 100kW solar to cut bills; and Inside Cali’s $8bn wind energy project.
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IEA says rooftop solar is “unbeatable” and will underpin its forecasts for solar – both PV and thermal with storage – to become the dominant energy technology, with costs falling to 4c/kWh. Finance is a key, however, and that will require some stable and sensible policy.
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Winfried Hoffmann has created a learning curve for battery storage that predicts costs will fall much faster than many experts believe.
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WWF says Australia one of worst offenders in a world living well beyond its means – a pattern driving dramatic declines in biodiversity since 1970.
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Nedlands Council orders new-build and renovated houses in affluent Perth suburb to install minimum of 1.5kW solar, wind or other on-site generation.
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Socket parity has arrived so quickly it has turned the electricity industry on its head. Now solar could do the same for liquid fuels.
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Coal industry pushes coal-fired generators as best means to address energy poverty, but IEA says solar is the best solution.
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Amid predictions China could have a 35% share of global PV capacity by 2050, Beijing calls for regional govts to have up to 10% renewables by 2015.Content
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New analyses show people didn’t just leave fingerprints on the record-breaking heat: we left a clear handprint.
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Latest EV friendly bill in Cali set to require that all recently constructed parking lots or housing must be ready for electric charging infrastructure.
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Solar and wind projects can mean big bucks for communities – but only if they keep them local!
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A 100kW rooftop solar system installed by one of Australia’s leading fertilizer and garden products manufacturer should save the company $45,000 a year.
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The key to the $8 billion California wind energy project would be a massive compressed air energy storage system using salt caverns in Utah.
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