Sunshine Coast Council on Monday formally opened its 15MW Valdora solar farm to become the first council in Australia to complete its own large scale solar plant, with the prospect of saving more than $20 million in electricity costs.

Developers of wind and solar projects may try and accelerate their projects to get in in front of the proposed generator reliability obligation.

Leading PV manufacturing equipment supplier Meyer Burger said that LONGi Solar Technology, the PV module manufacturing arm of leading monocrystalline wafer producer LONGi Green Energy Technology has become the first customer of its double-side PERC (Passivated Emitter Rear Cell) coating platform, ‘MAiA EVO’.

ASX listed real estate fund Industria REIT has begun installing 1MW of solar PV at the Brisbane Technology Park, a commercial hub that is home to 43 different businesses.