In what it says is Australia’s first zero emissions house, CSIRO officially opened its solar powered AusZEH demonstration home last week in Victoria.
The team from Energy Matters Tasmanian branch will be again attending this years Agfest to demonstrate and provide free information regarding wind and solar power and offering some very special Agfest solar deals.
Google has announced its first direct investment in a large scale renewable energy project; two wind farms situated in the North Dakota plains.
Following advice from the ACT Independent Competition and Regulatory Commission, Minister for Energy, Simon Corbell, announced early this month revisions to the ACT’s solar feed in tariff.
Barcadi rum is the favourite tipple of many Australians and now the spirit will be a little bit greener courtesy of wind power.
UK-based Isentropic says it has designed a system that uses the company’s Isentropic heat pump to create electricity from energy stored in gravel in a thermal form – a thermal battery.
In March, the PV Directorate warned of a looming bottleneck relating to SHCP rebate solar power installations. According to Energy Matters, recent installation rates reports from the Department Of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency paint an even grimmer picture.
While Australia’s Emissions Trading Scheme has been shelved until 2013, electricity prices are still set to rise – and investment in new power generation projects could also be impacted as a result of the ETS delay.
Australia’s CSIRO has announced it is constructing the largest solar-power tower of its type in the world at the National Solar Energy Centre in Newcastle.
SMA Solar Technology AG has received the 2010 International Energy Efficiency First Place Award for its carbon neutral solar inverter factory, located in Kassel, Germany.
