A company called Solar Botanic may have a solution for sensitive home owner associations that object to solar panels – artificial trees that make use of renewable energy from the sun and wind.
Hidden Valley Cabins is Australia’s first fully carbon neutral resort and tour business; powered by solar energy.
SunPower 315 is said to be the world’s most powerful monocrystalline solar panel, boasting 96-cells, 315-watt output and the industry’s highest conversion efficiency of 19.3 percent.
Kyocera Corporation has announced its successful bid to supply solar panels for the new Toyota Prius.
Most stimulus packages are being paid from rapidly shrinking tax revenues that aren’t enough to cover the splurges, with the result that public borrowing is rising rapidly. But there is another way and stimulus packages that do not require the commitment of public financial resources, such as feed in tariffs for renewable energy, are receiving little consideration.
Research work led by researchers at the University of St Andrews with partners at Strathclyde and Newcastle is focusing on a new type of air-fuelled battery could provide up to ten times the energy storage of designs currently available.
The Australian Government has highlighted a lofty goal – to build four solar farms that generate three times as much power as the world’s current largest project based in California
In the world of wind power, bigger turbines have been the trend for increased power generation, but a Netherlands based company believes that taller turbines may be the better way to go.
Announced last week, $13.5 million will be allocated over four years to introduce a gross feed-in tariff for home solar energy energy systems in Western Australia. The state’s program will be one of the most generous in Australia.
REN21’s renewable energy report comes in the midst of a global economic crisis, but shows there are many reasons to be optimistic with recent growth in the sector surpassing all predictions, including those made within the industry.
