Welcome to Energy Matters’ first edition of video news – a first for the solar power industry in Australia! Presented by Energy Matters team member Virginia, each week we’ll be covering some of the stories from Australia and around the world recently added to our renewable energy news section.
This week, Virginia covers the CEC’s call for a carbon price, Johnson & Johnson Medical’s new massive rooftop solar array in Sydney, NASA’s plans to hurl a solar panel toward the sun, Archimedes’ fabled solar powered death ray and much more.
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In this week’s episodes:
– Johnson & Johnson Medical recently unveiled a 200kW rooftop solar power system at the company’s North Ryde facility in Sydney.
– The Clean Energy Council has released an open letter signed by nineteen of Australia’s major energy retailers, calling on the government to set a price on carbon as soon as possible, highlighting the importance of Australia meeting emissions reduction target of 5 per cent below 2000 levels by 2020
– NASA has embarked on a mission to study the sun closer than ever before – and it will also be the closest olar panels have ever been to a star.
– After winning in the corporation Division of the Contribution to the Environment category at this year’s Melbourne Awards, national solar power solutions provider Energy Matters has been nominated as a finalist at the Citipower Port Phillip Business Excellence Awards in two categories: Environmental Impact and Environmental Products and Services.
– The Victorian government has announced that it will be streamlining approvals for large-scale renewable projects like wind farms and thermal solar plants, a measure which should significantly increase clean energy sources for the state.
– REC has won the Solar Industry Award for Module Innovation, presented by Solar PV Management Magazine.
– Burnt-out power lines and other expensive pieces of electricity grid infrastructure destroyed in the 2009 Black Saturday Bushfires could be replaced with stand-alone renewable energy sources like solar panels or wind turbines, according to a report by the Alternative Energy Association.
– Legend has it that the Greek mathematician, engineer and astronomer, Archimedes invented a solar powered heat ray that focused sunlight onto approaching Roman ships, causing them to catch fire. Did it really exist?
More details on these stories and many more can be viewed in our renewable energy news section. For news on the run, don’t forget to check out our new mobile news service!
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