Victoria’s Baillieu government has come under fire for its “one state, two regulation” policy on wind farms in city and country areas. The development of wind farms was restricted by the coalition government - which...
Power grids, communications and satellites could be knocked out by a massive solar storm in the next two years, according to scientists. Experts say the sun is reaching a peak in its 10-year activity cycle,...
Lady Elliot Island eco resort is about to go even greener with the installation of almost 100 new solar panels. The Queensland resort, which sits off the coast of Agnes Water and Bundaberg, expects to cut...
Soon, the windows of your house and the screen of your cell phone may be collecting solar power. An article published in the journal Advanced Materials says researchers at the University of California have built...
Julia Gillard yesterday accused State governments of unjustifiably increasing electricity prices over the past four years by abusing their dual positions as owners and regulators of power assets. In an bold bid to turn the...
The Victorian Competition and Efficiency Commission (VCEC) review of the state’s solar feed in tariff, currently Australia’s most generous, was submitted to the Victorian Treasurer a short time ago. According to a statement from the...
The earth has warmed by 1.5 degrees Celsius in the past 250 years and "humans are almost entirely the cause", according to a scientific study set up to address climate sceptic concerns about whether human-induced...
Researchers specializing in solar power have been awarded almost A$1.3 million ($1.3 million) by the Australian Federal Government to develop technologies to make the energy source more efficient and cost effective. The grants are part...
The Woolworths supermarket chain last week held a press conference to announce its plans to install solar power systems on all of its stores. The top of the range solar panel systems will be installed...
A toll highway in Denver has become a clean energy powerhouse. A series of solar panel arrays covering a 25km stretch of the E-470 was commissioned late last month. Generating electricity to power streetlights, signs,...
Australia, as just noted yesterday, is experiencing a pretty tremendous solar boom. Now, here’s some interesting news: it’s the less wealthy who are installing the most solar! That’s counter to the general stereotype that solar is...
SYDNEY, Australia, July 24, 2012 --/PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest producer of solar panels, today announced the grand prize winner of its Suntech Super Draw in Australia, who...
Nanosolar has completed a 1-megawatt, ground-mounted solar panel installation at a military base in California. The company's management are the inventors of a solar technology that prints metallic nanoparticle inks on huge rolls of aluminum...
Residents of a North Bundaberg retirement village are calling on Ergon Energy to connect more than 350 solar panels that have been gathering dust on their roofs for almost six months. Six months after they were...
A move by electricity provider TRUenergy to cut their solar rebate to Central Coast customers by 6 cents per kWh on July 1 has sparked outrage. On the very day the carbon tax came into...
Over the past three years, Australia's electricity prices have risen by an average of 35 per cent across the country. The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) estimates that average national prices will jump a further...
