Leading solar technology producer, SunEdison announced in December last year that it had secured a deal with both Barclays and Citi in order to fund a portfolio of distributed generation solar power projects. These projects will...
Ballina in Australia, while also being the first to introduce a solar-powered public electric vehicle (EV) charging station, recently launched a 45kW solar carpark despite an increasingly anti-renewable political environment. Installed at Knockrow tourist attraction, Macadamia Castle,...
Good news to all Australians who use solar! According to the Australian Photovoltaic Institute the country has generated over 4GW of energy from small-scale solar installations. This came only a few days after the APVI revealed the remarkable feat...
The “political barnacle” that Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) has become should be removed, according to former Liberal leader Dr. John Hewson. The original target saw the country aim to generate 20% of energy, equivalent to...
Solar cars have been around for sometime; progressively improving as technology evolves. Recently, a group of students from Eindhoven University in the Netherlands got their heads together and built a 4 person solar car which they entered in...
During March, 2015 the Solar Impulse 2 will commence the first ever flight around the world using only the power of the sun. Since the Solar Impulse 2 was presented to the public in April 2014,...
A recent future energy poll reveals a massive 80 per cent of Australians strongly support solar and wind energy. As a result, these two renewable sources were included in the top three energy options according to the...
A staggering 3 GW of rooftop solar PV systems have been installed in Australia over the past few years. The figures were released by the Clean Energy Regulator, the organization tasked with the supervision of renewable...
In a brief moment, rooftop solar power negatively changed electricity prices in Queensland. Currently known for its extensive use of coal power which provides more than 80 per cent of its electricity, Australia will someday...
A crowd-funded solar power system will be installed at Kirribilli House as a Christmas gift for Prime Minister Abbott from Common Grace, a known progressive Christian group. One of the board members, Tom Costello, is...
Competitors in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race will quickly pass by one of the most iconic figures in Australian history, the Iron Pot Lighthouse. It lighthouse stands not only as one of Australia’s historic...
One of the largest solar PV manufacturer and retailer in the United States, SunEdison, has recently acquired its Australian counterpart, Energy Matters, along with associated companies SunLock and Apollo Energy. The acquisition was already rumoured to...
Those who are following the development and rise of solar energy and battery energy storage will have many reasons to rejoice. The cost of traditional lithium-ion batteries, such as those used by laptops and mobile...
The largest solar farm in Australia recently started its operations at Royalla. It was officially opened by Simon Corbell, the Minister for the Environment. The plant is located about 23 kilometres from Canberra. This solar...
A group of local government councils in Sydney has worked hand in hand to shake things up a bit as far as federal and state policies regarding renewable sources are concerned. Their aim is to...
With the use of ultra thin carbon nanofibres, Australian engineers were able to enhance silicon solar cell efficiency by 3.8%. Soon people can convert more solar energy from the sun into power with the use...
