A survey of Australian households has found one in eight people cannot afford to pay their electricity bills. The Ernst & Young survey of households in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland showed more than one in 10 people have missed more than three bill payments in the past 12 months. Survey finds 1 in […]
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Local jobs will go if the Abbott government decides to make cuts to its renewable energy scheme, according to Shoalhaven’s largest solar panel installer. Mark Simms, who has built his Nowra-based company Simmark up to employ 14 staff, said the solar industry was stable and sustainable as it is now. “It’s great for local businesses because […]
Australian society is made up of a strong sense of independence, can-do attitude, and healthy scepticism for authority, which is understandable given its geography and history. Therefore, it’s little wonder that household-owned, rooftop solar is the major force in the Australian solar market. Australia is also home to massive youth unemployment, which is sapping the potential […]
Solar lights improving living conditions For residents, the solar lights have been life changing. Typically customers earn less than $2 a day and before having access to solar lights would spend several dollars each week on kerosene. Ms Seller says residents get trapped in a cycle of spending, “which means they can’t save money to […]
So concerned was Greg Hunt about the future of the solar industry that he went skydiving at Tooradin in his electorate of Flinders to back an industry he said was in freefall. That was in 2008 when he was shadow environment minister. Labor had means tested its solar panel rebate. More recently, after the 2013 election, he […]
Solar panels have a new enemy – birds and possums! It seems there’s enough room for them between the roof and your solar panels for the possums to crawl into and for the birds to create a nest. And according to the pes controller who tipped us off to this – they are causing damage […]
First there was the station wagon, then the mini-van. Now, meet a possible new innovation in kid movers. The 4-seater known as “Stella” is the first solar-powered family car. Designed by Solar Team Eindhoven, Stella won the World Solar Car challenge race across Australia last year. It just made its debut in the U.S. It drove […]
THE Brisbane solar company building a heart-shaped solar farm made up of 7,888 PV panels is calling on the Federal Government to show some love to a sector stuck under a cloud. Conergy Australia managing director David McCallum said it is ramping up offshore projects, including the 2MW solar farm to be built in coming […]
