Western Australia’s Horizon Power has announced the introduction of area-specific solar feed-in tariffs. While owners of systems in some towns will receive a much higher rate, others will receive less.
Solar Frontier recently announced the signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Japan Asia Group Limited (JAG) to cooperate on boosting solar power in Japan.
Virginia reports on price wars in Australia’s solar sector, Energy Matters becoming Australia’s first accredited REC solar professional, greening solar panel production and Victorian coal fired power stations receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon tax ‘compensation’.
Solar energy’s supporters have been whispering about the ‘Merit Order Effect’ (MOE) for some time now and those whispers are only growing in volume. So what is this mysterious Merit Order Effect and what is its relationship to solar power?
Solar Impulse is readying for its next big adventure – a flight of over 2,500 kilometers, powered purely by the sun.
The Obama Administration says the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with state governors of the Great Lakes region will open America’s north-east to ‘more than 700 gigawatts’ of offshore wind power.
The dark side is one of the largest users of solar power in the universe. From TIE fighters to Orbital Solar Energy Transfer Satellites, solar’s power is almost as strong as the Force.
Solar power could help save the planet as we know it through reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It might also be called upon to help blast asteroids that threaten us with obliteration.
Wind power may have taken a big leap skyward with the successful test of a new airborne turbine using blimp technology to reach powerful high-altitude winds.
Australian solar retailers have been dropping like flies over the last year – and the demise isn’t just due to government policy.
