Sungrow Inverters Used For Huge Solar Carport
Sungrow 60 kW string inverters have been used in a 2.25MW Lockheed Martin owned solar carport project. Officially commencing operations in late October, the 14,065 square metre solar array covers Lockheed Martin’s parking lot at its facility near Clearwater, Florida and is the state’s largest privately owned solar power system. The 7,260 solar panels will […]
76,000 Solar Street Lights For Rural India
Hundreds of villages in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh will benefit from solar powered LED street lighting as part of a government program. The Climate Group reports 800 rural villages across 40 districts will receive the lights under the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency project, which are being supplied by Philips […]
$250 Million Financing For Renewables In SEMED Region
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has announced a significant financing programme to boost renewable energy generation via the private sector in North African and Middle Eastern countries. US$ 250 million in financing will be available for projects in Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan; regions where fossil fuels still have a stranglehold. According […]
Hunt Talks Up Australian Renewables In Shanghai
Australia’s Minister for the Environment, Greg Hunt, provided a glowing report on the state of renewable energy in Australia at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Future of Energy Conference in Shanghai yesterday. Minister Hunt didn’t want to discuss the not-so-glorious recent past for renewables under ex-Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s reign, stating he wished to focus […]
Ears For Years – Solar Powered Hearing Aids For Kids
Ears For Years is working to provide solar powered hearing aids for kids in developing countries – and the person behind the program is just 18 years old. Grace O’Brien found inspiration after volunteering with children inflicted with varying degrees of hearing loss who received hearing devices. “I watched as the children gained self-confidence in […]
CEFC Annual Report 2014-15 Tabled In Parliament
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) Annual Report for 2014-15 was tabled in the Australian Senate yesterday. In the Chair’s Report section of the document, Jillian Broadbent AO was quick to remind us of the impact uncertainty regarding the Renewable Energy Target had during the period. ” In a financial year which saw an all-time […]
SunEdison And Bloomberg Ink Solar PPA Deal
SunEdison, Inc. (NYSE: SUNE) has announced the signing of an agreement to supply solar electricity to the New York data center of the world’s leading provider of business and financial information, news and insight, Bloomberg. 2.9 megawatts DC of solar energy will supply Bloomberg’s Rockland County facility; providing more than 5% of the data center’s […]
ACT Emissions Rise Temporary: Corbell
A slight rise in greenhouse gas emissions in the ACT during 2014/15 was caused by the removal of a price on carbon says Minister for the Environment Simon Corbell. The ACT’s latest Greenhouse Gas Inventory was tabled in the Legislative Assembly late last week and shows per capita emissions of 9.97 tonnes per person. This […]
South Australia’s Blackout – Batteries Are Looking Even Better
Approximately 110,000 South Australian households lost power last night due to a fault in an interconnector with Victoria. Large chunks of Adelaide, the Barossa Valley, Port Pirie and the West Coast were without electricity for around three hours. The cause of the interconnector failure is yet to be determined. During the incident, South Australia was […]
Better Batteries Using Silicon Anodes
University of Waterloo researchers have created a lithium-ion battery with a silicon anode that they say will result in cheaper, smaller and longer lasting energy storage devices. Convention lithium-ion batteries use graphite anodes and this creates somewhat of a performance bottleneck due to the limitations of the material, which can only provide an energy density […]
