Author: Energy Matters

Solar powered car XOF1 has become the first vehicle of its type to traverse one of world’s longest ice roads.

184 new contracts for large clean energy projects have been approved in the Canadian province of Ontario. The projects combined could generate more than 2,500 megawatts of electricity, enough to power 600,000 homes.

Wake Forest University in North Carolina has been granted a patent for new solar-cell technology that it says can double the electricity output compared to flat solar cells on the market today.

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has appointed a leading expert in solar energy technology to the state’s Climate Change Council.

A massive retirement of coal-fired power generation plants is looming in Australia and globally. This presents the nation a unique opportunity to move away from the filthy fossil fuel for generating electricity and fully embrace it’s range of renewable energy resources.

Search engine giant Google was one of dozens of companies and organisations that were signatories of a letter to US President Barack Obama calling on giving every household and business access to useful and actionable information on their energy use.

Australia is used to droughts and one relating to solar power is causing headaches for consumers and solar companies throughout the country – a shortage of grid connect inverters. This is allowing other quality manufacturers such as Xantrex to gain a foot in the door in the local market – and unfortunately also some brands without such a good reputation.

The Solar Pebble is an innovative solar powered lamp to be launched for use in rural Africa as a humanitarian product; but also to be sold elsewhere for camping applications under a “buy one here, support us there” model.

Siemens’ ‘Picture the Future: Australia – Energy and Water’ states a single solar farm located in central Australia could meet the national electricity demands of the nation during daylight hours.

A new report from Greenpeace entitled ‘Make IT: Green Cloud Computing and its Contribution to Climate Change’ highlights the impact of an increasingly online world in terms of carbon emissions and how renewable energy must play a greater role.