Author: Energy Matters

Additional and pointless red tape threatens the solar industry in Tasmania say the Greens.

The knee-jerk reaction by Western Australia’s government to its failure to rein in increasing power prices by targeting solar households could cost it – and the Coalition – dearly.

The Western Australian Government intends to slash the solar feed-in tariff rate for households that installed systems between mid 2010 and mid 2011.

In 2012, the USA’s wind industry became the number one source of new electricity generation capacity, representing an investment of $25 billion.

SOL can be run entirely on the power of the sun and could make a big difference to education and communications in developing countries.

It may not be a huge installation, but a 5kW solar panel system is the first grid-connected floating PV plant in Southeast Asia.

A new multi-directional wind and wave generating system could help U.S. researchers develop better methods of capturing renewable energy in the rough waters off the Gulf of Maine.

The world’s biggest operator of nuclear plants is exiting the nuclear power sector in the USA; turning instead to renewable energy.

A micro electric car project aiming to develop a vehicle for urbanites vehicle that can travel 20 km/day purely on power supplied by solar energy has been deemed a success.

Solar power in Australia is a ‘revolution that nobody saw coming’ says the Climate Commission in its latest report, The Critical Decade – Australia’s Future: Solar Energy.