'World first': Australian university signs deal for 100 per cent solar power

Madeleine Cuff
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Agreement puts University of New South Wales on track to become the first university in the world to be powered solely by solar

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is hoping to make it into the green energy record books with a new deal to source all of its electricity from solar power. The Australian university yesterday...

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