Alcoa announced last week testing of its advanced solar technology with the goal of making Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) competitive in the United States by lowering its cost to generate energy.
Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. has announced it will supply over 16,000 280 watt solar panels for a new 4.7MW solar farm in Taiwan
Sanyo has announced completion of two Sanyo HIT solar panel powered parking lots for electric bicycles and provision of 100 of its Eneloop hybrid bikes in Setagaya, Tokyo Japan.
Major recent changes to the Australian Green Loans program that stripped away the possibility for interest free financing for solar power systems has left some householders asking whether a home sustainability assessment is still relevant. According to accredited assessor James Gregory, an assessment is still worth getting done.
While the amount of money being spent in relation to solar power and other renewable energy subsidies is sometimes criticised, a recent study on energy subsidies found that the world could be spending USD$500 billion annually to subsidise fossil fuels – the majority from subsidised end-user prices.
Solar panels generate a great deal of waste heat, so why not use that heat to perform another task solar energy has been used for decades to do – heat water.
Late in February we reported that even with a looming election in Tasmania, none of the parties appeared to have addressed the lack of a suitable feed-in tariff for solar power in the state as an election issue. That situation changed last week with Tasmania’s Greens announcing their “Electrifying Tasmania” pledge.
SunPower announced yesterday it had secured a contract to provide its solar panel technology for generating up to 200 megawatts, or 80 percent, of the solar power capacity needed for Southern California Edison’s (SCE) major solar photovoltaic installation program.
Where Suntech led, Kyocera is now following. The company recently announced plans to begin manufacturing solar panels in California to serve the local U.S. market’s booming demand for modules.
When we think of wind power, we often conjure up images of windmill type turbines or vertical wind turbines called VAWTs. Soon we may see a new type of device on the market, the Windbelt by Humdinger Wind Energy.
