Energy Matters Video News – Episode 63 – April 4, 2012

Virginia reports on price wars in Australia’s solar sector, Energy Matters becoming Australia’s first accredited REC solar professional, greening solar panel production and Victorian coal fired power stations receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon tax ‘compensation’.

The Merit Order Effect And Solar Power : A Primer

Solar energy’s supporters have been whispering about the ‘Merit Order Effect’ (MOE) for some time now and those whispers are only growing in volume. So what is this mysterious Merit Order Effect and what is its relationship to solar power?

Great Lakes Offshore Wind Power Moves Ahead

The Obama Administration says the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with state governors of the Great Lakes region will open America’s north-east to ‘more than 700 gigawatts’ of offshore wind power.

Dark side turns to solar power

The dark side is one of the largest users of solar power in the universe. From TIE fighters to Orbital Solar Energy Transfer Satellites, solar’s power is almost as strong as the Force.