No formal announcement has been made but there have been rumours that both Apple and Google are seriously engaged in their respective projects for electric vehicles, albeit of different levels.
Felicia Whiting of Infratech Industries revealed the company’s plans earlier this year to construct the first floating solar farm in South Australia. The solar plant will be based on a wastewater treatment facility in Jamestown in the...
The Chevrolet Volt has a feature that differentiates it from all other plug-in cars – it will run solely on electricity as long as its battery has a charge. The EV design's gas engine will...
There are rumours doing the rounds that there is a Ford electric car is in the works. The top auto company is believed to be in the midst of developing a plug in electric car that boasts...
A report on the findings of an investigation into solar power customer satisfaction was recently published by CHOICE, a consumer advocacy group. The latest CHOICE report reveals the underlying assumptions a solar company makes that induce them to...
AGL's Nyngan Solar Plant will soon be up and running and upon completion, the plant will have a 102 MW capacity. The mega project set to reaffirm AGL’s reputation as the biggest ASX-listed owner, operator and developer...
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk was heard loud and clear in early May as he announced the initial response to his company’s latest product line of solar batteries. Intended for residential use, consumer interest in...
The news that Swedish retail giant Ikea plans to open a 29, 000 square metre outlet located in North Lakes, Moreton Bay was met with excitement throughout south east Queensland. This news didn’t only excite...
Imagine paper-thin, individualized coloured solar panels secured onto a window of a building. Such a concept may soon become a reality according to one study by Britain’s Exeter University, as new generation solar panels have been created and...
A significant development for green energy as Apple CEO Tim Cook announced his company’s monumental solar power partnership with First Solar Inc in February, 2015. The project will allow for Apple to generate enough electricity in order...
Representatives of the Broken Hill Solar Plant project have maintained that it will be finalised at the end of this year. The $200 million initiative is located on a 140 hectare plot, making it the...
Another step in the right direction for renewable energy in Australia as Carnegie Wave is switching on their onshore power station at their Perth Wave Energy project. The Carnegie project is the very first time that wave-powered electricity has...
Interest has been revived in developing a 100mW plus solar thermal plant in Western Australia by two prominent developers. This interest in the solar tower has been re-established due to the fact that Australia’s Goldfields...
US based S&C Electric Company has won the first tender offered by Ergon. The tender involves providing a unique grid-based battery storage technology, which could be the first of many such installations across their extensive network...
2015 saw a solar yacht fitted with flexible solar cells called Helios entered into the Young Designer of the Year competition run by Boat International Media. Being 55-meteres long, the environmentally friendly, high performance solar yacht is able to travel the world...
The Macarthur wind farm is one-of-a-kind due to the fact that it is able to produce more than enough clean energy in order to run close to 220,000 standard Victorian households while saving almost 1.5 million...
