Author: Energy Matters

U.S. based solar panel manufacturer Sunpower has announced the completion of Australia’s largest solar farm to use a solar tracking system.

The U.S. Government is turning to the nation’s university students with a nationwide competition that it hopes will yield the next generation of American renewable energy entrepreneurs.

A new deal to deliver baseload electricity in India using concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) technology illustrates once again that setting national renewable energy targets can boost green jobs numbers and deliver profits, both fiscal and environmental.

In this episode, Virginia covers Cadbury Chocolate’s solar initiative, Energy Matters wins Australian Business Awards, solar savvy Queenslanders help the state power past targets and coal cries poor

There’s only one thing better than solar power and that’s chocolate. Maybe. Combine the two though and it has to be the best thing in the entire universe. Ever.

Ontario, Canada’s most populated province, has seen a boom in renewable energy jobs, with 20,000 employed in the sector. It’s not such a rosy picture for the coal industry though, with coal fired power generation in Ontario slated to go the way of the dodo by 2014.

In the USA, the state of California is currently legislating renewable energy targets that make goals set by some nations look like paltry gestures by comparison. The state is using every means necessary to get there, including the roofs and backyards of its citizens.

Danish wind energy giant Vestas is determined to make its new US headquarters, currently under construction in the the renewable energy mecca of Portland, Oregon, as green as possible by installing the city’s largest rooftop solar power system on the 102-year-old Meier & Frank Depot building.

National solar solutions provider Energy Matters has been recognised among Australia’s most progressive organisations, winning the 2011 Australian Business Awards in the categories of E-Business and Recommended Employer.

A $66.5 million grant was announced for Moree Solar Farm last week to go towards research and development in relation to the massive clean power generator.