A study released on Tuesday shows pricing for residential electricity supply in Australia is among the highest in the world, with South Australia at the top of the list.
U.S. President Barack Obama has ridiculed the anti-solar lobby’s criticisms of the industry and has again called for an end to $4 billion in U.S. subsidies to the oil sector.
An industry-wide commitment of environmental and social responsibility released by the USA’s Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) aims to ensure its members ‘spread the love’ throughout the sector by applying the principals of sustainability and respect for human rights to the workplace.
The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal’s (IPART) ignorance of the value home solar power systems contribute to Australia’s energy mix seems to be showing again.
It appears the so-called ‘solar trade war’ between the USA and China has ended – not with a bang, but with a whimper in the form of small tariffs on the import of cheap Chinese solar panels into the country.
Australian mining magnate Clive Palmer has accused Greenpeace Australia of sourcing funding from a US environmental charity supported by the USA’s CIA.
Those most aggrieved by the Draft Energy White Paper released last December come from the solar industry, which the DEWP document suggested doesn’t really exist writes RenewEconomy’s Giles Parkinson.
Australia is only G20 nation since 1995 to have gone backwards in global low-carbon competitiveness rankings.
The recent axing of Australia’s solar hot water rebate caught many off guard – and the situation with the Solar Credits rebate reduction may do too, but for different reasons.
The tiny island nation of Tokelau will be taking a major step towards breaking its fossil fuel addiction with the help of solar power and SMA solar inverters.
