Author: Energy Matters

The USA’s Duke Energy will invest half a billion dollars on a massive solar power expansion in the country’s sunny South-East.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and the Energy Networks Association (ENA) have created a partnership to create a database of renewable energy grid integration projects and findings.

Australia’s coal industry is in a flap after an announcement from the Chinese government it would ban the import of certain types of coal.

Solar Frontier has announced it supplied 21.3 MW of CIS thin-film solar panels for one of Japan’s largest solar farms.

The Australian dollar is weakening and should this continue, it could have implications for households considering going solar.

Australia now has a body to represent the local energy storage sector – and some of the names behind it will be familiar.

Responding to Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane’s comments last week, the Clean Energy Council has again said the Federal Government should leave the Renewable Energy Target alone.

As well as being one of the largest onshore wind projects in France, the Ensemble Eolien Catalan wind farm will be a demonstration project for stealth wind turbine blade technology.

The Condor electric ute/light truck promises fuel costs of around 1c per kilometre.

University of California has announced the largest ever purchase of solar power by an American institute of higher education.