Author: Energy Matters

V/Line’s first solar powered level crossing is at Huntly on the Bendigo to Echuca rail line.

Out of 24,000 submissions received during the consultation process of the Renewable Energy Target review, far fewer than 1% called for a reduction in the RET.

The U.S. Energy Policy Institute says anti-wind farm campaigners have failed miserably in their legal efforts due in part to poorly constructed opinions being used in the absence of real evidence.

The response to a report on Monday the Abbott Government was considering abolishing Australia’s Renewable Energy Target altogether was swift and plentiful.

SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) is supplying solar inverters and other technology for the world’s largest PV-diesel hybrid power plant; currently being built in the Bolivian province of Pando.

It’s becoming even clearer why Big Energy in Australia want the Renewable Energy Target gone; or at least gutted.

Energy storage giant Samsung SDI and leading inverter manufacturer Sungrow Power have signed an agreement that will see Samsung enter the Chinese market.

The Australian Financial Review is reporting Prime Minister Tony Abbott has requested the head of the Renewable Energy Target review panel to ‘to do more work on the option of terminating the target altogether’.

The Stafford Hill Solar Farm is the USA’s first project to build a micro-grid powered by solar and battery back-up, with no other fuel source.

Yingli Solar’s Singapore subsidiary has donated an off-grid solar power system to a school in Laos that previously had no access to electricity.