Author: Energy Matters

Australia’s Clean Energy Council (CEC) has released updated data showing the nation’s top solar postcodes.

Solar households in Tasmania are currently receiving a 1 for 1 feed-in tariff arrangement – but for how much longer?

The installation of molten salt receiver panels atop the 540-foot tall tower of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Plant has been completed.

More than one million solar panel systems have been installed on the rooftops of homes and businesses throughout the nation.

The world’s operating wind turbines could meet the residential electricity needs of 450 million people – over 6% of the world’s population.

The energy needed create the many millions of solar panels produced so far has been more than the electricity they have collectively generated to date – but that is about to change.

A nation-wide poll has revealed two-thirds of Americans support solar and wind power over oil and nuclear energy.

A senior Chinese official has said his nation faces a ‘horrific’ future with unimaginable environmental consequences if it does not act now to establish a carbon trading scheme and install more renewable energy.

Japanese mobile phone operator DOCOMO has begun begin field testing mobile network base stations powered by solar panels.

National solar provider Energy Matters says autumn is a great time for solar – with cool days and clear skies, solar power systems will be operating at optimum efficiency.