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Woolworths has slashed its electricity bills and will well and truly beat its emissions reductions target, according to group energy manager Michael Shelley.

A $42 million mix of solar, battery storage, cogeneration and biogas will make Teys' Wagga meat processing facility energy self-sufficient, and provide extra revenue for local farmers.

• University to source all its power from solar farm
  
• Victoria specifies renewable energy requirement
  
• Clean Energy Finance Corporation under review
  
• Optional access to LRET closes for 10kW to 100kW systems

In an Australian first, a regional council will use a super-fast anaerobic digester to treat waste and produce exceptionally high quality biogas.

A council today invited expressions of interest from small-scale 'energy from waste' technology providers to work with local manufacturers to cut power bills and waste costs.

A major meatworks will buy more than half its power from an ARENA-backed biogas facility that will create renewable energy certificates and carbon credits.

• Lendlease certifying $49bn of development
  
• Duet expands clean energy portfolio
  
• Energy services company targets microgrids

Businesses won't get relief any time soon from power bills that incorporate record prices for renewable energy certificates, but there are steps that can ease the pain, according to Anita Stadler of consultancy Energetics.

The director of a WA food company says installing solar allowed his business to move two night shifts to daylight hours, and prompted it to look for new ways to use energy efficiently.

Corporate interest in renewables is skyrocketing, according to consultancy Energetics.