FoE

January 2017 meetings

Due to Australia Day, our monthly Admin & Strategy Collective and Clean Futures Collective meeting has been brought forward a week to Thursday 19 January 6pm at the Box Factory.

Our Campaign Against Nuclear Expansion meetings remain the same on the 2nd and 4th Monday at 5pm at Kappy’s.

Hope to see you there.

adelaide.office@foe.org.au

Yes2Renewables meeting Tues 13 December

Please join us at the next Yes2Renewables meeting at the Joinery 111 Franklin St Adelaide at 6:30pm on Tuesday 13 December. For more information please contact adelaide.office@foe.org.au

Yes 2 Renewables: Adelaide Action Group Meeting

Facebook event

South Australia is a renewable energy success story. The state is fast approaching 50% renewables and has booming solar, energy storage, and wind power sectors.

This success has made South Australia public enemy #1 for the fossil fuel lobby, who will do anything to stop our transition to 100% renewables.
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Yes2Renewables

End the Blame Game and Back Renewables Open Letter

Yes2RenewablesYes2Renewables invite you to sign the online petition to Malcolm Turnbull asking him to stop blaming power blackouts and electricity price spikes on renewable energy.

“South Australia is a renewable energy success story. The state is fast approaching 50 percent renewables and has booming solar, energy storage, and wind power sectors.

This success has made South Australia public enemy number one for the fossil fuel lobby, who will do anything to stop our transition to 100 percent renewables.

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Adelaide FoE Meeting & Workshop

Join Leigh Ewbank from Yes2Renewables for a quick update on the campaign,
followed by a workshop on using social media for campaigns.

6pm Wednesday Nov 23rd, at the Minor Works Building (just off Sturt Street, behind East of Norman). There’s wifi in the building, so you can bring your laptop or mobile device along!

minorworks

The Minor Works Building, at 22 Stamford Ct, accessed via the Ergo site.

Please Register via eventbrite

Solar – not so intermittent – Sustainable Engineering meeting 14/11

Join members of FOE-Adl’s Clean Futures Collective at this meeting hosted by Sustainable Engineering.

Solar – Not so Intermittent
Mon 14/11
5:30pm Flinders Uni building Vic Square
by Sustainable Engineering
SolarReserve – CSP with molten salt energy storage technology
SolarReserve is a leading global developer of utility-scale solar power projects headquartered in California, USA with offices in Africa, the Asia-Pacific region, Middle East and Europe. The company has commercialised a proprietary advanced solar thermal technology with integrated energy storage that enables firm, fully dispatchable, non-intermittent electricity to be generated from the sun, day or night. SolarReserve has successfully financed and constructed more than US$1.8 billion of large scale solar projects worldwide, with development and long-term power contracts for 482 megawatts of solar projects. Daniel will discuss SolarReserve Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) with molten salt energy storage technology, its operational Crescent Dunes project and provide an update on SolarReserve’s plans to build the Aurora Solar Energy Project in Port Augusta, the first of a number of projects planned for South Australia.

RSVP here