Studies are under way to produce next-generation solar panels and cells that are more efficient and cheaper compared to today’s versions. In Australia, engineers from the University of New South Wales will be joining hands...
Essendon Football Club is set to begin training at a brand new facility in coming weeks - a green building called the True Value Solar Centre. True Value Solar Centre will be tapping solar power...
Environmentalist Danny Kennedy, founder of the rapidly growing solar energy company Sungevity, was born in Los Angeles, California of Australian parents. Author of a book (“Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy –...
The first company to ever manufacture hot water systems using solar energy, Solahart has made over a million systems not only for Australia but for world markets as well since 1953. The company is known...
The declining Australian government support to the solar industry in terms of incentives is causing the diminishing number of solar jobs in the country, according to the REC Agents Association. In an annual report released by the organisation,...
Solar leasing is projected to boost the solar energy sector with the government slowing down on its stance on feed-in-tariff for solar systems. Photovoltaic companies are now introducing solar lease products into the Australian market...
Concerns that the Australian Renewable Energy Target (RET) was under threat under the Coalition government were intensified on Tuesday when the Abbott government released the 2014 federal budget. The renewable energy industry is outraged by...
Trina Solar Limited has announced recently that all of its photovoltaic (PV) cells are now integrated with Trina Solar anti-PID or potential-induced degradation ability resulting to greater efficiency. In a statement, the company’s module business...
Joe Hockey's federal budget has been met with outrage by the renewable energy industry with the announcement that the government plans to cut a further 1.3 billion dollars of funding from the Australian Renewable Energy...
The Queensland government has recalled a faulty solar panel part that has sparked forty fires. Malcolm Richards, chief executive of Master Electricians Australia, has said that Avanco and PV Power-branded DC isolators have caused the...
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Post Arab spring populations are clamouring for mobilisation and rallying to join the ranks of the world's solar countries, according to the prevalent discourse at the EU EnergyMed conference held in Naples from March 27...
IEA PVP’s Snapshot of Global PV 1992-2013 ranks Australia as the 10th country worldwide with the most solar power installations, not far behind the United Kingdom, Greece, Romania and India. China tops the list, followed...
Multinational construction corporation Laing O’Rourke will receive additional funding for a feasibility study regarding portable hybrid solar-diesel power plant technologies. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has declared a $410,000 grant to further bolster the...
Martifer Solar Martifer Solar, a global player in the photovoltaic industry finished the construction of five solar farms in nine weeks, installing 78.4 MV in record time, or equivalent to 2 MW per day. The...
SunPower, a US-based provider of solar solutions, has been granted extra funding by Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital as a form of aid for its solar power related efforts, adding more ways for the company...
Australia’s Renewable Energy Target or RET needs to cover transport and heating energy like China and Europe. This is to increase the 5% approximation of all its renewable energy sources. In August 2009, an expanded...
