13 per cent of homes in Australia now have a solar panel system and 3 million Australians live in a solar household – and the RET is costing far less than some would have us believe.
Solar energy company SunEdison Inc. says it will build a 50.7 MW photovoltaic power plant in Chile’s Atacama region after closing a $100.4 million finance deal with the U.S. Government’s Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), and the World Bank Group.
Australian solar provider Energy Matters is donating solar power equipment to 1 Million Women.
Wind turbine giant Siemens has announced it has won a EUR 2.2 billion contract to build two wind power plants in the German North Sea.
It’s not armed with a huge chunk of change, but a new ARENA-supported project will investigate realising the potential of community-owned renewable energy projects in Australia.
On Tuesday, the first electricity was generated at the Mt Mercer Wind Farm near Ballarat in Victoria.
Apricus Australia’s solar hot water products are increasingly appearing in commercial scale installations across the country.
A potential looming threat to apply extra electricity charges to those with solar panels will face stiff opposition from many of the 1 million solar households in Australia.
Despite the majority of Australian households now owning an air conditioner, many people will swelter in their furnace-like homes this summer rather than switch on the cool.
National solar provider Energy Matters is among the first Australian solar power retailers to sign on to the Clean Energy Council’s (CEC’s) newly-established Voluntary Code of Conduct.
