A recently announced initiative will see up to 33 million people living in poverty in Africa and Asia supplied with low-cost solar panels and solar battery packs.
589,000 member strong independent political action group GetUp has launched a campaign against Independent MP Rob Oakeshott’s motion to remove provisions that prevent the burning of native forests for energy from being counted as renewable energy.
The Gillard Government today launched its Clean Technology Investment Programs – $1 billion in funding for manufacturers to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions.
Virginia reports on one million renewable energy jobs in Europe, Queensland shooting for 9000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy generation, new Australian Government energy efficiency programs launched and NASA awards a solar electric propulsion system contract.
A team of researchers from Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology and Suntech have developed what they state are the world’s most efficient broadband nanoplasmonic solar cells.
Researchers from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) are working on a system to better harness the power of solar energy to generate electricity and heating for homes.
The European renewable energy sector had more than a million people employed by the end of 2010 according to the recently released EurObserv’ER report, ‘The State of Renewable Energies in Europe’.
A team of engineers from Stanford University have created tiny hollow spheres of photovoltaic nanocrystalline-silicon to channel light; a development that could dramatically reduce thin film solar panel materials usage and processing cost.
A wind farm with enough capacity to provide for the electricity needs of up to 320,000 households – and reportedly the largest operating facility of its kind in the world to date – has been officially opened.
The Crescent Dunes solar thermal power plant is one step closer to producing clean energy from the Nevada desert sun, with the company announcing the completion of a 540-foot (165-metre)-high receiver tower at the site.
