Debbie Dooley has effectively combined Tea Party conservatism and solar power activism. This green party star is heading to Wisconsin to fight for solar power. Dooley is the founder of the Green Tea Coalition, a conservative-focused...
The Australian Solar Council joins with several stakeholders and launches a new industry body for the energy sector as it tries to engage more electric utilities. According to the PV-Tech website, the newly formed body...
The introduction of the Model X by Tesla Motors blows past the expectations of both consumers and investors despite the excitement that the Model S has injected into the automotive industry. Tesla Motors has unveiled...
Majority of the households in Australia with solar panels have an annual income lower than the state average, according to a recent study by the REC Agents Association. This bit of news shatters the misconception...
A developer of solar power systems in Australia predicts that solar energy will become less expensive compared to wind power in the coming years, which could further encourage more Australians to invest in solar photovoltaic...
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation grants a $13 million loan to Epuron for the expansion of its Uterne tracking solar farm in southern Alice Springs. This will increase Uterne’s 1 megawatt capacity to 3.1 megawatt....
A solar car designed to overcome “range anxiety” has set a land speed record in Australia. The Sunswift eVe, designed and built by University of New South Wales students, has beaten the previous world record...
An electric bus fleet plying the Milton Keynes route, the first of its kind in the UK, gives the Citroen C1 and future French cars a run for its money. The electric bus runs quieter and...
The battery lives of mobile devices today are spent in less than half the time that you charge them. And the SunPartner Group in the quaint little French town of Aix-en-Provence decided to do something...
A team of physicists, engineers, and chemists from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation a.k.a. CSIRO is nearing its development of printable solar panels for use in low-power applications such as personal devices. The...
If you are one of those wishing to have a Brammo electric motorbike, this could be your time to get what you want. Brammo announces their End-Of-Summer Promotion where you can get unbelievable discounts on...
Following the recent Warburton Panel’s advice to Prime Minister Abbott to hold back on Australia’s Renewable Energy Target (RET), experts in the solar industry said this development could increase solar panel prices by as much...
A future project as gargantuan as the $5bn gigafactory by Elon Musk can be overwhelming but as you will soon learn, there are numerous benefits and everything is on ground level. The figures are staggering: investments = $5bn,...
Electricity consumption in Australia has been steadily increasing up until 2010. For more than a century, through the Great Depression and two world wars, Australians have increased their use of electricity year by year. However,...
What Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde has created looks perfect in a world like the James Cameron blockbuster, “Avatar”: trees that glow in the dark from jellyfish luminescence. Roosegaarde has always been interested in how streets...
There is a coming shortage of panels for solar systems and if there are no measures to avert this looming shortfall, the solar industry might take a dive. This situation reverses a two-year slump triggered...
