According to German’s Solar Industry Association, the nation’s solar power systems collectively generated 18 billion kilowatt hours of clean electricity during 2011.
Adding to a recent U.S. Department of the Interior (DoI) announcement of two new renewable energy projects being approved, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has approved the construction of a further two projects – a utility-scale solar power plant in California and a transmission line for a wind farm in Oregon.
Two Australian bodies criticising the cost of solar power have again failed to factor in all the benefits of the technology.
A reliable electricity supply can be a rare thing in some parts of Africa and access to the Internet even more so. Shipping containers turned into Internet “cafes” and powered by solar panels are helping to change this.
Spanish wind farm builder and turbine manufacturer, Gamesa, has won an international public tender to supply Egypt with 200 MW of turbines for use in wind energy projects in El-Zayt, located along the environmentally sensitive Gulf of Suez.
BP Solar exiting the solar panel manufacturing industry has seen India’s Tata Power acquire full equity in Tata BP Solar – but what will happen to BP’s major Australian project, Moree Solar Farm?
A new energy roadmap released by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) states the country could avoid more than 250 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 through the deployment of wind power, smart grid technology and greater uptake of electric vehicles for transport.
It’s not going to set any capacity records, but Palau International Airport’s new solar panel array is a big deal for such a small nation and sets an example for other countries.
A recently released report from NSW’s Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) help explains why households of the same size may have very different electricity bills – with one factor being the presence of a swimming pool.
An audit of a small number of home solar power systems in Western Australia carried out by EnergySafety has raised concerns about the prevalence of shoddy installation quality.
