In this episode, Virginia covers additional changes to the ACT’s solar feed in tariff program, a South Australian student invents a solar powered sprinkler, South Australia’s solar revolution being driven by average households and a Melbourne PhD student awarded for solar cell innovation.
200,000 people living in council and public housing accommodation in the UK will receive free rooftop solar installations under a £1.2 billion deal between project financial specialist AD-ECO and Yorkshire-based solar energy system provider Solar Europa.
Generous incentives and government rebates are seeing the rooftop solar market in California rocketing and prices of solar panels plummeting.
A new study out of Canada shows the vilification of small-scale renewable energy isn’t just an Australian phenomenon. It also backs up what has been proven here at home in numerous reports: scrapping renewable schemes does nothing to curb rising energy prices.
The Japanese government has directed high-volume electricity users serviced by embattled Tokyo Electric Power Co. to reduce electricity demand by 15% in the face of the ongoing nuclear crisis at Fukushima, giving rise to on-site renewable energy production.
Scientists from four UK universities have collaborated to develop a revolutionary process that uses solar energy to produce clean fuels, which they say could help solve looming global energy shortages.
UK scientists say they have developed a new technique for making polymer solar panels that could usher in a cheap renewable energy future.
What is believed to be the world’s largest Sanyo HIT solar panel based PV farm has commenced operations in the Apulia region in Italy.
The ACT’s solar feed in tariff program for households has been given new life – but it appears it may be at the expense of medium scale solar power in the Territory.
Australia’s Government has announced details of its carbon pricing scheme and a big winner in the renewable energy sector will be large scale solar power.
