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 […]
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MADRID/SYDNEY (Reuters) – A year after Spain, the sunniest country in Europe, issued notice of a law forcing solar energy-equipped homes and offices to pay a punitive tax, architect Inaki Alonso re-installed a 250 watt solar panel on a beam over his Madrid roof terrace. via From Sydney To Spain, Old Energy Is Doing Everything […]
Polling by Crosby Textor has been released today clearly showing that Australian voters across the political spectrum want more renewable energy, the Clean Energy Council said. Clean Energy Council Acting Chief Executive Kane Thornton said the polling showed extremely strong support for the Renewable Energy Target (RET), a policy that had generated billions of dollars […]
TOKELAU, A GROUP OF REMOTE ISLANDS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, RECEIVES 100 PERCENT OF ITS ELECTRICITY FROM SOLAR ENERGY. via 50 More Awesome Facts (About Everything) | Mental Floss.
Fossil fuel divestment poses $5trn challenge, as clean energy debate stirs Down Under Bloomberg New Energy Finance Week in Review Meanwhile, renewable energy is facing large political hurdles ‘Down Under’. A Bloomberg News story last week found that Australia is “frightening developers away” from renewable energy as the government is preparing to decide whether to […]
The industrial town of Port Augusta is being watched by energy giants and environmentalists alike to see if it can lead the way to a clean-energy Australia. ON A LONG FLAT ROAD out of the South Australian town of Port Augusta along the coast, a couple of chimneys rise up in the distance. Out here, […]
Australia’s household solar revolution has caught the energy sector by surprise, and may leave NSW and Queensland taxpayers footing the bill for billions of dollars worth of “stranded assets”. More than a million Australians have already installed solar panels on their roofs, causing demand for electricity from the grid to plummet. For decades demand for […]
A “second gold rush” for the photovoltaic industry is coming, enabled by the “inevitable” adoption of distributed generation (DG) solar power on a widespread basis. This was the assessment of Eicke Weber, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, who chaired a panel on current dynamics in the PV marketplace at the Intersolar North […]
Will there be a sunny future for solar? – ABC Queensland – Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
Will there be a sunny future for solar? 20 August 2014 , 10:58 AM by Jacquie Mackay The Sustainable CQ Alliance yesterday shone a light on the many possibilities of sustainable energy alternatives to coal fired power. The aim was to not only demonstrate how far solar technology has come in the past few years, […]
Solar power is coming to the fore as a major future source of global energy, experts say. In Australia, where there are 1.2 million homes with solar panels installed on roofs, the growth of solar power has been so profound that wholesale prices of electricity have been driven low enough that few coal generators in […]
