Uterne 4.1MW solar expansion complete, ready to power Alice Springs #Auspol
Australia’s largest solar PV farm to use sun tracking technology, the 4.1MW Uterne project in Alice Springs, has been completed and is ready to supply electricity to the local power network.
One of only two large-scale solar projects to have been financed by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the newly expanded facility owned by Epuron Solar is expected to meet the electricity needs of about 1,100 homes, and gives Alice Springs one of the highest solar penetration levels in the country.
The CEFC committed $13 million in finance to enable the expansion of the formely 1MW Uterne solar plant using tracking technology installed by SunPower, which enables the panels to follow the sun and deliver up to 30 per cent more energy than fixed-tilt installations.
In a statement on Thursday, Epuron acknowledged the key role of the CEFC’s financial backing in the project’s completion, as well as that of a…
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Australia as Guinea Pig for “New Nuclear” – theme for September 15
To resuscitate the nuclear industry, its lobbyists must convince the world that they have the solution – to turn radioactive trash into a “valuable resource” – by the new magic “waste eating” Generation IV nuclear reactors.
But those reactors don’t exist. They might be dangerous. They’re astronomically expensive. They will be a terrorist target. And they themselves still leave a smaller amount of highly toxic, long lasting radioactive trash. And that trash is so highly toxic that it requires a large storage space.
But what if – what if – the nuclear industry could convince a far away country that it could make $squillions by importing radioactive trash?
And gee whiz – the nuclear industry would pay up front to set up the new gimmicks (Australia could pay them back later for these).
Australia could be the salvation – of the world’s most toxic, dangerous, and unaffordable industry! Bingo!
Latest Australian nuclear news
SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Let’s not forget that the purpose of the Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission is to have South Australia become the world’s nuclear toilet. For that reason, the most important submissions are those concerning Issues Paper 4 – Management, Storage and Disposal of Wastes.
Many submissions newly published. I’m not able to keep up. I single out an outstanding, powerful submission from Josephite SA Reconciliation Circle. A top Submission on Nuclear Waste Importing for South Australia comes from NGOPPON TOGETHER INC. And there’s Claire Catt’s fine Submission.
South Australian government warned on the illegality of using public money to encourage nuclear industry.
Ambivalence in Port Adelaide Enfield Council about trucking radioactive trash. Nuclear stooge MP Rowan Ramsey touting radioactive trash dump for his electorate.
FEDERAL POLITICS. Family First (!!) Senator Bob Day not able to dismantle Australia’s law against establishing nuclear facilities . He tried. Abbott’s plan to change environmental law puts Great Barrier Reef at risk. Farm organisations angry at Abbott plan to restrict legal action against resource projects. Very little use made of “third-party appeal rights” in Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
ABORIGINAL ISSUES. A beautiful article by Jeff McMullen on Aboriginal custodianship of Australia
RENEWABLE ENERGY . Huge solar panel array for Canberra Hospital’s roof. Sunshine Coast solar farm to start building before Christmas. Australian. Victorian government to back new wind farms as part of renewables plan. Electric Vehicle Association launched in Tasmania.
Dump for Lucas Heights wastes not the same thing as importing foreign nuclear wastes
We may now expect Fed govt to await the bi-election in Canning in Perth on Sept 17th before announcing the national nuclear dump site short list across SA & WA – just as South Australian Premier awaited his bi-elections before announcing the Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission
In any case, the national store & repository are required by law under National Radioactive Waste Management Act 2012 as a national dump to be restricted to take waste ‘of domestic origin’.
And so has to be at a different site to proposed International nuclear dump being pushed in South Australia.
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