MV Solar Roundup #52

Only a month after it signed up to the global initiative RE100, Bank Australia has announced it made the switch to 100% renewable electricity one year ahead of its 2020 target.
- PV Magazine

Having burst out of an investment black hole at warp speed, the renewable energy sector's massive building boom looks likely to hit an uncompromising wall. The reckoning is likely to be sooner rather later.
- ABC News

Echoing a growing appetite for corporate renewable power purchase agreements in Australia, Ascham School has become the first school in New South Wales to ink a long-term renewable PPA.
- PV Magazine

Tiny light-emitting microalgae, found in the ocean, could hold the secret to the next generation of organic solar cells.
- Science Daily

"This is the climate election," declared Queensland Greens Sen. Larissa Waters at a Brisbane forum, weeks before the Australian election this month.
It's unsurprising that Waters would say this: The environment is always at the heart of the Greens' policy. But a series of natural disasters has forced many other Australians to take notice.
- CNN 

While remote lighthouses in British Columbia, Canada, usually rely on diesel generators to run 24/7, a number of them are now moving to renewable energy.
- Electrek