With parts of NSW expecting flooding over the coming days, Fair Trading Minister Anthony Roberts has reminded New South Wales residents whose homes are damaged by storms to take care if their house has a solar power system installed.
GE Energy Financial Services has announced 2011 was a record year for its global solar power investments, with the company doubling its solar spending commitments in the past year to $1.4 billion, reaching a total of nearly $5 billion in projects.
The Parliamentary Secretary for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Mark Dreyfus, has announced the closure of the Renewable Energy Bonus Scheme.
The potential for using expanses of water to host solar power systems is continuing to be explored – in this instance, by an Italian company.
Arizona Public Service Company has begun testing a new shipping container sized 1.5 megawatt-hour (MW/h) Lithium Ion Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).
Virginia reports on Mars Rover Opportunity’s solar panels covered in dust but still delivering power, Lucy Lawless; the actress who played Xena in Xena: Warrior Princess, arrested after participating in Greenpeace action, BP bails on Moree Solar Farm and a new solar farm for Mars Chocolate North America.
Lucy Lawless and five other Greenpeace activists hunkered down at the top of a derrick on a Shell drilling ship berthed in the port of Taranaki in New Zealand were arrested by police yesterday
Protergia S.A, an energy company in Greece, has flipped the switch on three solar farms with a combined capacity of 11.5MW.
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has announced it will acknowledge renewable energy as the fastest growing sector of the energy mix and publish annual medium-term reports placing renewable energy alongside oil, gas and coal.
Euro utilities try to curb PV installation as merit order effect impact bites into earnings, while China pushes PV throttle to the floor says Giles Parkinson.
