I have updated the static placemark collection today with 102 fixed locations. This is largely due to the efforts of Mark Scholes with hydro electric stations in Victoria and Tasmania, and Philip Robertson with solar and hybrid stations in remote communities in the Northern Territory and South Australia. Thank you very much for you contributions!

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We now have at last count approx 110 systems installed. Ranging from single house systems with average daily budgets of 4 -8kWh to the largest at Lingarra, a community hybrid that supplies up to 250kWh/day during the Wet season. This site is currently supporting an average 105kWh/day with no diesel runtime.

We have just been refunded for a further two years that will take us thru to June 2010. We are also gradually taking on the responsibility of maintaining and fixing a very large number of systems installed by other parties. Vast sums of money have been spent on systems that are either not working, being poorly maintained or just don’t meet the communities needs.

Of all the systems we have installed since 2004 until today I had only seen one on the images. I have picked up several more today. The irony of the one that was there is that when I found it, it had just recently been stolen. The community was away and somebody came in and uplifted approx 3 tonnes of equipment.

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