The 2.3MW Mount Majura Solar Farm has been officially opened in the ACT on Thursday morning, marking the launch of yet another contributor to the Territory’s 100 per cent renewable energy target.

Australia will find itself again on the outer in global climate change efforts, excluded from key decision-making processes because it is one of a minority of major polluters that has yet to ratify the Paris climate accord.

Western Australia’s regional utility Horizon Power has launched a project to deliver what it claims will be Australia’s largest solar and storage-based microgrid once complete in early 2018.

What do solar panels and tomatoes have in common? Living space.That’s the idea behind a new collaboration between SunPower, a solar power company, and the University of California at Davis.