Solar Power Lights Up Capricorn Caves
A project to relight the historic Capricorn Caves in Central Queensland was officially unveiled last week – and this time the caves are being lit up courtesy of solar power. The $300,000 project, which began in May 2013, saw old hot tungsten bulb lighting from the 1960’s replaced with LED technology running off solar panels. […]
Tesla Announces ‘Powerwall’ Battery – Home Energy Storage
——- UPDATE : December 24, 2015 – Tesla Powerwall pre-ordering now available via Energy Matters. —— Tesla announced a short time ago details of Tesla Energy, a new range of batteries for homes, businesses and utility scale operations. The residential energy storage solution is called “Powerwall”, a rechargeable lithium-ion battery designed for load shifting, backup […]
CEC Releases Australian Energy Storage Roadmap
The Australian Energy Storage Roadmap will assist in unlocking “game-changing” opportunities energy storage technology holds for electricity customers and the renewable energy industry says the Clean Energy Council. Launched yesterday, the Roadmap showcases some of the work the CEC has been performing behind the scenes and the path forward for the sector. “Energy storage technologies […]
EPIA Calls For Solar Anti-Dumping Tax Removal
The president of Europe’s leading solar industry group has called for the removal of anti-dumping taxes imposed on imports of solar products made in China, saying the countervailing duties have led to job losses and negative growth in the European solar market. European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA) president Oliver Schaefer made the comments this week […]
Off Grid Solar For 100,000 Households In Ghana
Affordable, pay-as-you-go solar power will be supplied to 100,000 off-grid homes in Ghana over the next 2 years. Announced at the recent Solar & Off-Grid Renewables West Africa Event; Azuri Technologies has partnered with Oasis African Resources for the program that will focus on cocoa farming regions in the country. An estimated 5 million people […]
Coonooer Bridge Wind Farm Secures Financing
Construction of a $50 million wind farm in Victoria will commence this year and once completed, will deliver clean power for just $81.50 a megawatt hour. A project of Australian company Windlab Limited, the six-turbine, 19.5MW wind farm will be located north west of Bendigo and should be operational by early next year. The facility […]
Samsung Launches Solar Powered Digital Village In Ghana
Samsung Electronics Africa has launched a Digital Village at the Volo community in the Volta Region of Ghana. The Digital Village features a solar powered Internet School that can accommodate up to 24 learners and a solar powered Tele-Medical Center. Additionally a solar power system will service an Admin Center to be used as office […]
Greens Reiterate Support For Unchanged RET
The Greens have announced their post-2020 carbon reduction targets – 40-50% by 2025 and 60-80% by 2030 – which they say will put Australia on the path to reach net-zero pollution by 2040. In a speech delivered to the Sydney Environment Institute at Sydney University on Monday night, Greens Leader Christine Milne had little warmth […]
Falcon To Help Reduce Wind Turbine Bird Strikes
The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have enlisted an avian partner in research aiming to reduce bird fatalities caused by collisions with wind turbines – a Peregrine falcon named Houdini. Although wind farms only account for a very small percentage of bird deaths in the States each year compared to the amount killed by […]
Paper Silicon Solar Cells Possible
While paper silicon solar cells mightn’t be such a great thing; new technology developed by researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands that will make it possible is. Printable electronics to date have mainly focused on the use of organic and metal-oxide ink materials given their compatibility with the application process. However, these […]
