Coonooer Bridge Wind Farm Secures Financing
Construction of a $50 million wind farm in Victoria will commence this year and once completed, will deliver clean power for just $81.50 a megawatt hour. A project of Australian company Windlab Limited, the six-turbine, 19.5MW wind farm will be located north west of Bendigo and should be operational by early next year. The facility […]
Samsung Launches Solar Powered Digital Village In Ghana
Samsung Electronics Africa has launched a Digital Village at the Volo community in the Volta Region of Ghana. The Digital Village features a solar powered Internet School that can accommodate up to 24 learners and a solar powered Tele-Medical Center. Additionally a solar power system will service an Admin Center to be used as office […]
Greens Reiterate Support For Unchanged RET
The Greens have announced their post-2020 carbon reduction targets – 40-50% by 2025 and 60-80% by 2030 – which they say will put Australia on the path to reach net-zero pollution by 2040. In a speech delivered to the Sydney Environment Institute at Sydney University on Monday night, Greens Leader Christine Milne had little warmth […]
Falcon To Help Reduce Wind Turbine Bird Strikes
The U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have enlisted an avian partner in research aiming to reduce bird fatalities caused by collisions with wind turbines – a Peregrine falcon named Houdini. Although wind farms only account for a very small percentage of bird deaths in the States each year compared to the amount killed by […]
Paper Silicon Solar Cells Possible
While paper silicon solar cells mightn’t be such a great thing; new technology developed by researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands that will make it possible is. Printable electronics to date have mainly focused on the use of organic and metal-oxide ink materials given their compatibility with the application process. However, these […]
Mount Emerald Wind Farm Gets QLD Government Nod
The Queensland Government has granted approval for the Mount Emerald Wind Farm, which will be located south of Mareeba on the Atherton Tableland in Far North Queensland. “Our government promised to grow the renewable energy industry across the state and this project is aligned with the Far North Queensland Regional Plan 2009-2031 energy objective,” said […]
Trina Sets New Solar Panel Efficiency Record
Trina Solar announced last week its State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China has set a new world record for high efficiency p-type multi-crystalline silicon solar panels. Trina says its test Honey Plus multi-crystalline silicon module attained a new module efficiency record of 19.14% with an aperture area of 1.515 m2. The […]
Home Energy Storage – It’s All About Tesla (Or Is It?)
All eyes will be on Tesla this week as the eagerly awaited Tesla home battery is unveiled. The online world was abuzz last week when Jeff Evanson, Tesla’s VP of investor relations, said details of the Tesla home battery and a very large utility scale battery would be announced on April 30. In February, Tesla […]
South Africa’s First Solar Powered, Off-Grid Cemetery
Unreliable electricity supply has cost South Africa 10% of GDP – and property developer Calgro M3 is doing something about it by embracing off-grid solar. In what it describes as a first for South Africa, the company is about to launch a subsidiary that will operate completely off-grid and generate its own renewable energy to […]
SEIA Celebrates Solar On Earth Day.
The U.S. Solar Energy Industries Association celebrated yesterday’s 45th annual Earth Day, with SEIA president Rhone Resch forecasting the USA’s current 20 gigawatts of solar capacity will double by 2016. According to the industry group, all solar market sectors – residential, non-residential and utility scale – will grow by 25-to-50 per cent in the next […]